Civil Rights movement

Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice, first became famous for which of the following:

• Organizing the March on Washington
• Not giving us his bus seat
• Winning the court case of Brown versus Board of Education
• Giving African Americans the right to vote

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

What was the purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

• It made Jim Crow Laws illegal
• It allowed blacks to run for public office
• It ended segregation in schools
• It made poll taxes illegal

How did the assassination of MLK affect the Civil Rights Movement?

• It had no effect
• The movement continued because he wasn't that important
• People were heartbroken and the movement slowed
• The movement gained strength because people of all races were outraged

What was the purpose of the 24th amendment?

• It ended slavery
• It ended segregation based on race
• It made poll taxes illegal
• It made it legal for Thurgood Marshall to be chosen to serve on the Supreme Court.

Who was the "mother" of the civil rights movement?

• Rosa Parks
• Coretta Scott King
• Michelle Obama
• Oprah Winfrey

The civil rights movement began in 1955 with the _________________.

• Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education
• "I Have a Dream" speech
• March on Washington
• Montgomery Bus Boycott

_______________ wrote "I Have a Dream" and delivered it to thousands in Washington, DC. 

• Harry Belafonte
• Barack Obama
• Martin Luther King, Jr. 
• Jesse Jackson

To separate one group from another is ___________________.

• integration
• segregation
• Civil Rights Movement
  Jim Crow