Topic 9A The Civil Rights Movement

What court case ruled for "separate but equal"?

• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Brown v. Board the Education
• Scott v. Sanford
• Marbury v. Madison

"No person shall require any white female nurse to nurse in hospitals...in which negro men are placed."

This law is an example of which of the following?

• Homer Plessy

• Dred Scott

• Thurgood Marshal

• Jim Crow

Who sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing to give up a seat on the bus to a white man?

• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• James Meredith
• Medgar Evers
• Rosa Parks

The major topic of the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, was which of the following?

• lunch counters
• popular sovereignty
• desegregation
• voting

What law was proposed as a result of the Selma march?

• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Voting Rights Act of 1965

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 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.

Program to provide more job opportunities for those who have been discriminated against in the past

• Boycott
• Integration
• Ghetto
• Affirmative action

The first black student at the University of Mississippi

• Earl Warren
• James Meredith
• Malcolm X
• Jackie Robinson

14th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; oversaw Brown vs. Board of Education

• Earl Warren
• James Meredith
• Malcolm X
• Jackie Robinson