Civil Rights STAAR Review

What organization did W.E.B. Du Bois found?

• The Back to Africa Movement

• Tuskegee Institute

• NAACP

• Access for all movement

This amendment declared that all persons   born in the United States (except American Indian tribes) were citizens, that   all citizens were entitled to equal rights regardless of their race, and   their rights were protected by due process of the law (1868) (USH.9A)

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th
• 5th

This amendment granted African American men the right to vote (1870) (USH.9A)

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th
• 5th

This act abolished racial, religious, and sex discrimination by employers; unlawful for an employer to “fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges or employment, because of such individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.” (signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson) (USH.9F)

• Civil Rights Act 1964
• Executive Order 1948
• Civil Rights Act 1957
• Voting Rights Act 1965

The 24th Amendment...

• gave women the right to vote.

• eliminated the use of literacy tests.

• outlawed poll taxes.

• allowed for the popular election of US Senators.

What kind of marches did Martin Luther King Jr. lead?

• large

• mad

• nonviolent

• violent

This act was passed to protect voting rights of African Americans; intended to prevent obstructions to voting for African American voters, such as paying a poll tax or taking a literacy test in order to be eligible to vote; ensured rights granted in the Fifteenth Amendment (USH. 9F)

• Civil Rights Act 1957
• Civil Rights Act 1964
• Executive Order 1948
• Voting Rights Act 1965

Thurgood Marshall became _______.

• a president of the United States.
• a principal in a school who fought racism.
• the first African American on the Supreme Court.
• one of the authors of the constitution.

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 Martin Luther King Jr gave the famous “I Have A Dream” speech at what event?

• Freedom Rides
• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• March on Washington
• March from  Selma to Montgomery

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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