Civil Rights Quiz

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

• Civil Rights March of 1964

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Freedom Riders

• March on Washington

When African Americans refused to ride the public buses as a sign of protest; this began when Rosa Parks was jailed for refusing to give up her seat to a white man.

• Freedom Rides

• March on Washington

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Sit-in Movement

Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal to...

• segregate bus stations

• to pay black people less than white people.

• force states to integrate

• to segregate schools.

Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Mapp v. Ohio

Bringing students of different races together in one school is known as what?

• boycotting

• sitting-in

• integration

• segregation

This law made segregation illegal. It also made it illegal to deny someone a job based on race.

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

What was the common goal of the sit-in movement and the Freedom Rides?

• to force segregation in all public areas

• to end segregation in all public areas

• to end segregation in public schools

• to force segregation of public schools

People who traveled in buses through the South to draw attention to segregation of bus station facilities.

• Black Power Movement

• Freedom Riders

• KKK

• NAACP

What is a sit in?

• Sitting in the wrong section of a bus

• Sitting in an area where you are not allowed as a form of protest

• Sitting in the doorway of a jail so the officers cannot bring anyone in

• Sitting inside of a church while protesters are outside.

Why did MLK Jr. encourage the movement to use non-violent protests?

• It made the violence towards them seem even more unreasonable

• He was scared of getting hurt

• He knew that White Southerners were better at fighting than Black Southerners

• The police would always protect people who are using non-violent protests