Civil Rights Movement 2

What was a main goal of the Black Panther Party?

• desegregation in schools

• Challenging police brutality in African American communities

• giving blacks the right to vote

• ending slavery

What is the name for the idea that Black Americans should have their own country?

• Black Nationalism

• The Nation of Islam

• White Nationalism

• Black Pride

What religion did Malcolm X become interested in, while he was in jail?

• Christianity

• Judaism

• The Nation of Islam

• Buddhism

A highly militant Black Power organization

• Malcolm X

• Martin Luther King Jr

• the Black Panthers

• The Black Military

Who was the first African American to be appointed a Justice of the United States Supreme Court?

• Dred Scott

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Thurgood Marshal

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

During the 1950s and 1960s, which civil rights leader advocated black separatism?

• Medgar Evers

• James Meredith

• Rosa Parks

• Malcolm X

What was the principal strategy used by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to achieve equal rights in the United States?

• advocating separation of the races

• counseling African Americans to attend vocational schools

• encouraging the use of civil disobedience

• creating a new political party

Martin Luther King, Jr. first emerged as a leader of the civil rights movement when he

• led the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama

• refused to give up his seat on a bus to a white man

• challenged the authority of the Supreme Court

• was elected as the first black congressman from the South

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

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

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• March on Washington

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• 15th Amendment

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