Civil Rights, 5th grade GA

Which laws were passed to enforce segregation?

• Jim Crow Laws
• Black Codes

Which court case DEsegregated the schools?

• Plessy v. Fergusson
• Brown v. Board of Education

This Civil Rights leader led the March on Washington

• Malcom X

• Rosa Parks

• Jim Crow

• Martin Luther King Jr.

____________ prohibited discrimination in public places and integrated schools.

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• Voting Act of 1965

This made it easier for African Americans to vote by removing the literacy tests put in place by Jim Crow laws?

• Civil Rights Act

• 15th Amendment

• Voting Act

• 18th Amendment

Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice, first became famous for which of the following:

• Organizing the March on Washington
• Not giving us his bus seat
• Winning the court case of Brown versus Board of Education
• Giving African Americans the right to vote

Who was the U.S. Senator who was assassinated while running for president in 1968?

• Robert Kennedy
• John Kennedy
• Martin Luther King
• Lee Harvey Oswald

What was the purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

• It gave black women the right to vote
• It made literacy tests in order to vote illegal
• It made Jim Crow Laws illegal
• It gave all blacks the right to vote

The March on Washington was most famous because . . .

• it caused race riots in the nation's Capital
• 200,000 people worked together to help blacks get the right to vote
• the KKK became an illegal organization because of the march
• Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I have a Dream: speech, which inspired hundreds of thousands to help the Civil Rights Movement

Which of the following best describes the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• Segregation on buses became illegal a few days after Rosa Parks began the protest
• Thousands of blacks blocked the streets so that buses could not finish their routes
• Martin Luther King was arrested for not giving up his seat to a white person
• Segregation of buses became illegal after many months of protesting