Civil Rights Flocab

What did the case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decide?

• Federal troops must help schools desegregate.

• The idea of "separate but equal" schools is unconstitutional.

• Having separate schools and facilities for blacks and whites is constitutional.

• Schools for blacks should receive more funding.

Which of the following did Martin Luther King, Jr. believe?

• You don't have to use violence to change the world.

• People have the right to create change by any means necessary.

• It is acceptable to have separate schools for blacks and whites, as long as they're equal.

• Race riots are the only way to achieve equality.

Which of the following is an example of "separate but equal" not working in practice?

• Martin Luther King, Jr. was inspired by Gandhi and Thoreau.

• Both whites and blacks supported Martin Luther King, Jr.'s message.

• When schools were segregated, schools for whites had better funding and more resources than schools for blacks.

• The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed racial discrimination.

What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do right after the arrest of Rosa Parks?

• He organized a march on Washington, DC.

• He went on a pilgrimage to Mecca.

• He delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.

• He organized a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama

Some African-Americans didn't support Dr. King's approach to ending discrimination because they thought it was too ________.

• weak

• violent

• religious

• immoral

Which of the following did Malcolm X believe before his pilgrimage to Mecca?

• No one should have a last name.

• All blacks should return to Africa.

• Blacks can only achieve equality through radical change.

• Civil rights were unimportant.

In Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech, he says that his dream is "deeply rooted in the ________ dream."

• African-American

• American

• Constitutional

• equal

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?

• It said Plessy v. Ferguson was constitutional.

• It desegregated schools.

• It outlawed discrimination based on race in public facilities.

• It gave African-Americans the right to vote.

The direct cause of the 1965 race riots in Watts was ________.

• the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

• the arrest of a young black man who was pulled over while driving a car

• Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus

• the bombing of a Birmingham church

How did Malcolm X's message change after his religious journey to Mecca?

• It became less tolerant.

• It became more hopeless.

• It became angrier.

• It became softer.