Civil Rights Movement

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 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

The March on Washington was most famous because . . .

• it caused race riots in the nation's Capital
• 200,000 people worked together to help blacks get the right to vote
• the KKK became an illegal organization because of the march
• Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I have a Dream: speech, which inspired hundreds of thousands to help the Civil Rights Movement

Which of the following best describes the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• Segregation on buses became illegal a few days after Rosa Parks began the protest
• Thousands of blacks blocked the streets so that buses could not finish their routes
• Martin Luther King was arrested for not giving up his seat to a white person
• Segregation of buses became illegal after many months of protesting

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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

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Who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus?

• Charlayne Hunter
• Harriet Tubman
• Rosa Parks
• Rebecca L. Felton

Court case that ruled that segregated schools are inherently unequal, ending the separate but equal doctrine.

• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Sweatt v. Painter
• Delgado v. Bastrop ISD