Civil Rights Quizziz

Which president integrated the military and federal government?

• Truman
• Eisenhower
• Roosevelt
• Kennedy

What organization, created by WEB Dubois, advocated for rights for blacks and other minorities?

• NAACP
• NCAA
• NATO
• NAFTA

Which amendment guarantees equal protection under the law?

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th
• 16th

This president sent federal troops to Arkansas to integrate the schools in Little Rock

• Truman
• Eisenhower
• Roosevelt
• Kennedy

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True or False:  The federal government had to get involved to end segregation in the South

• True
• False

Atlanta born Civil Rights activist that believed in non-violent protests.; gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington.

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Cesar Chavez

• Thurgood Marshall

More than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally for jobs and freedom.

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Freedom Riders

• March on Washington

Senator who ran for President and was later assassinated. His older brother was a US president who was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Robert Kennedy

• John F. Kennedy

• Thurgood Marshall

Refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus.

• Mary Washington

• Jackie Kennedy

• Cesar Chavez

• Rosa Parks

Desegregated all public schools. This was a major court case that involved Linda Brown attending an all-black school when an all-white school was closer to her home.

• Brown vs. the Board of Education

• 13th Amendment

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Jim Crow Laws