Civil Rights Movement Quiz

What was the result of the Brown versus Board of Education court case in 1954?

• Segregation of public schools became illegal
• African Americans began to play professional sports
• Martin Luther King led the March on Washington
• Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus

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

Who played a pivotal role in boycotting the Montgomery Bus line after being arrested ?  

• Ida Wells 
• Rosa Parks 
• Ella Baker
• Coretta Scott King

Thurgood Marshall was an important part of the Civil Rights Movement because: 

• b. He was the first African American to be appointed Supreme Court Justice
• a.  He was the lawyer of Linda Brown during Brown vs. Board of Education case
• He spoke during the march on Washington
• a.  Both A and B

How was the Montgomery Bus Boycott effective?

• It gave free transportation to African Americans
• It segregated buses in America
•  It made Rosa Parks lots of money
• It helped de-segregate buses in America

 Martin Luther King Jr believed in

• Violent protests
• Really loud protests
• Non-violent protests
• Violence  when needed protests

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The Freedom Riders were a group of African Americans and Whites who rode buses to..?

• Encourage A.A.'s to leave the south and move north

• to protest racial segregation throughout the south

• to promote membership in the KKK

• to gain support for the Vietnam war

who was  a highly militant Black Power organization who formed the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense

• Malcolm X
• Martin Luther King Jr
• Black Panthers
• The Black Military

What did the Black panthers believe was the way to get freedom ?

• Money
• violence
• love 
• peace

Sit-ins, freedom rides, & marches were all examples of...

• Attempts to expand opportunities for minorities

• New forms of exercise in the 60s

• Ways to connect the North & South US

• Economic growth for minorities