Civil Rights Movement Reveiw

One acccomplishment of the _______________ was bringing about the enforcement a federal ban on segregation in all the interstate travel facilities, including busses and waiting terminals

• Little Rock Nine

• Freedom Riders

• Black Panthers

• MOntgomery bus boycott

In Brown v. Board of Eduacation, the doctrine _________ relating to public education was finally overtuned.

• due process of las

• "all deliberate speed"

• "separate but equal"

• equal protection under the law

Civil rights leaders targeted Birmingham in 1963 because the city

• was highly segregated

• was almost bankrupt

• was the hometown of MLK Jr

• had few African Americans

Treatment of demonstrators by the Birmingham police

• angered most Americans

• ended the demonstration

• was praised by President Kennedy

• was controlled by the federal marshals

ML, Jr., influenced by Gandhi, believed in

• "an eye for an eye"

• nonviolent protest

• violent revolution

• The Book of Hector

The Civil Rights Act of 1968 banned discrimination in which activity?

• hiring an employee

• awarding a construction contract

• selling or renting a home

• admitting students to state universities

Johnson's two civil rights laws are considered to be

• landmarks in American History

• unconstitutional

• too weak to enforce

• too radical for the 1960s

The Freedom Rides were organized to test

• a Supreme Court decision eliminating segregation on interstate busses

• a congressional decree

• the safety of buses

• the character of local police officers

MLK, JR., was a founder and the first president of the

• Nation of Islam

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

• Students Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

What event made MLK a national Leader?

• the Montgomery bus boycott

• freedom summer

• March of Selma, Alabama

• the Albany movement