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 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

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

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

• Charlayne Hunter

• Harriet Tubman

• Rosa Parks

• Rebecca L. Felton

Nonviolent protest, where protesters occupied space in order to protest segregation.

• Sit-Ins

• Freedom Rides

• Selma March

• Filibuster

Which of the following is something that can be used to decide whether a person can vote?

• is a U.S. citizen

• owns a home

• race

• gender

The Freedom Summer Project of 1964 was organized by SNCC with the goal of...

• ending segregation of public schools

• registering African-American voters

• integrating colleges

• resisting slavery

The Little Rock 9 contributed to the Civil Rights Movement by

• integrating a public High School in Arkansas

• joining in the Montgomery Bus boycotts

• participating in Lunch Counter sit-ins

• being the first nine students to register to vote in Mississippi

This supreme court case ruled that segregation was legal as long as public facilities were "separate but equal."

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Marbury v. Madison

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Dred Scott v. Sanford