Civil Rights Movement Test

After the Civil War, ____________ were used to legalize segregation in the South.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• The 14th Amendment

• Jim Crow Laws

• Freedmen's Bureau

This is the term for unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of race, gender, age, religion, or ethnicity. 

• discrimination

• freedom

• equality

• hatred

African Americans wanted segregation to end, so they started non-violent, peaceful protests which was the start of the _________.

• Segregation Movement

• Integration Movement

• Civil Rights Movement

• Jim Crow Movement

What was the name of the 14-year-old boy who was executed in 1944 after an unfair and incomplete trial?

• William Jackson

• Vernon Williams

• George Stinney

• James Edwards

Who was the 14-year-old boy who was murdered by two white men in Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white cashier named Carolyn Bryant?

• Medgar Evers

• George Stinney

• Robert Jones

• Emmett Till

What popular folk singer wrote the 1962 song "The Death of Emmett Till?"

• Bob Dylan
• Paul McCartney

• Willie Nelson
• Johnny Cash

Who wrote the well-known nightclub song "Strange Fruit" which used hanging fruit from trees as a metaphor for lynching?

• Elvis Presley
• Louis Armstrong

• Ella Fitzgerald

• Billie Holiday

In the 1954 trial of Brown v Board of Education, the US Supreme Court ruled that

• private schools should be controlled by the federal government
• issues of racial segregation should be decided by the states.
• racially segregated public schools are unconstitutional
• the "separate but equal" doctrine should be contnued

What is lynching?

• execution by judge & jury sentence

• a form of slavery defined by one's race and inherited by children

• when a mob murders someone (often by hanging) for an alleged offense or to strike fear

• people being treated as the chattel (personal property) of an owner and being bought and sold as commodities

The Little Rock _________ was a group of African American students who became the first to desegregate Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

• Five

• Seven

• Nine

• Eleven