Civil Rights

What is protected under the Fourteenth Amendment as highlighted by the Civil Rights Movement?

• A citizen’s right to equal protection of the law

• The states’ power to enact its own laws

• An individual’s right to property

• A person’s right to an attorney

What did the Supreme Court rule in Brown v. Board of Education?

• It is constitutional to separate school children by race.

• It is unconstitutional to segregate school children by race.

• It is necessary to limit class size to no more than thirty students.

• It is necessary to supply all classrooms with textbooks.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed in an effort to end

• limitations on freedom of speech

• racial and gender discrimination

• unfair immigration quotas

• segregation in the armed forces

African Americans secured passage of civil rights legislation by

• working through the court system and mass protests

• pushing for legislation through referendum

• electing African Americans to the United States Congress

• conducting work stoppages around the country

Which Supreme Court case originally allowed for separate but equal facilities for black and white Americans?

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• Marbury v. Madison

• Brown v. Topeka Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

What was the MOST effective way in which the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) opposed segregation?

• participating in freedom rides

• conducting bus boycotts

• challenging laws in the courts

• holding lunch counter sit-ins

Which of the following represents a pair of correctly matched ideas and people in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement?

• Julian Bond - Black Power

• Martin Luther King, Jr. - Civil Disobedience

• Malcolm X - Non-violent Protest

• Rosa Parks - Conversion to the Nation of Islam

The goal of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 was to protest segregation on city buses by

• placing political pressure on the city leaders to outlaw segregation

• putting economic pressure on the city bus company

• advocating further mass protests that would disrupt the city

• threatening several class-action lawsuits against the city

Which doctrine was overturned by the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education?

• Due process of law

• "Separate but equal"

• "All deliberate speed"

• Equal protection of the law

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 made segregation illegal in

• housing

• churches

• public accommodations

• private universities