Civil Rights Movement

Which of the following is true about Emmett Till's murder? 

• The crime was never solved. 
• It took place in Michigan. 
• It was the catalyst of the Civil Rights Movement. 
• it took place in 1975.

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Why was Emmett Till in Mississippi?

• To visit his family

• To go on vaction

• For school

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What decision did Emmett's mother make that impacted the Civil Rights movement?

• Spoke out on the news

• Testified in court

• Had an open casket funeral

• Marched in Mississippi

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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

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

• It gave black women the right to vote
• It made literacy tests in order to vote illegal
• It made Jim Crow Laws illegal
• It gave all blacks the right to vote

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

To separate one group from another is ___________________.

• integration
• segregation
• Civil Rights Movement
  Jim Crow

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Nonviolent protest, where protesters occupied space in order to protest segregation.

• Sit-In
• Freedom Rides
• Selma March
• Filibuster

 Rosa Parks was arrested here when she refused to give up her seat on the bus. Also the site of a major bus boycott.

•  Atlanta, GA
• Montgomery, AL
• Washington, D.C. 
• Savannah, GA

Which president integrated the military and federal government?

• Truman
• Eisenhower
• Roosevelt
• Kennedy