Civil Rights Movement

What protest would Martin Luther King have opposed?

• Sit-In
• Bus Boycott
• March on Washington
• Race Riots

What was the result of the Brown v. Board of Education case?

• Segregation in public schools became illegal
• African-Americans began playing profession sports
• Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus
• MLK led a March on Washington

What was the purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

• It made Jim Crow Laws illegal
• It allowed African-Americans to run for political office
• It ended segregation in school
• It made poll taxes illegal

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What was the purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

• It gave African-American women the right to vote
• It made literacy tests to vote illegal
• It made Jim Crow Laws illegal
• It allowed all African-Americans to vote

The March on Washington is most famous for...

• causing race riots in Washington, D.C.
• 200,000 people worked together to get the right to vote
• the KKK became an illegal organization
• MLK gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech

How did the assassination of MLK affect the Civil Rights Movement?

• The movement gained strength because people were upset
• The movement slowed without MLK's leadership
• The movement continued because MLK wasn't an important part of it
• There was not change in the movement at all

African American Lawyer who won the Brown v. Board of Education court case and later became the first black Supreme Court Justice.

• Thurgood Marshall

• MLK

• Huey P. Newton

• Malcom X

There was a growth in political engagement by minorities with the passage of legislation to end-

• Literacy tests, voter intimidation, and gerrymandering

• Poll taxes, sit-ins, and freedom rides

• Labor unions, marches, and protests

• Literacy tests, integration, and desegregation

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Court case declared that separate black and white public schools to be unconstitutional.

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

Companies discriminated African Americans so the federal government answered by passing the-

• Title IX

• Civil Rights Act of 1957

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• 24th Amendment