Civil Rights Movement Test Review

This court case outlawed segregation in schools

• Brown vs Board of education

• Miranda vs Arizona

• Plessy vs Ferguson

• Gideon vs Wainwright

Thurgood Marshall was the attorney for which organization?

• NAACP

• SCLC

• SNCC

• NBA

This act made segregation illegal in most places of public accommodation and gave citizens of all races and nationalities equal access to public facilities.

• Civil Rights Act 1964

• Executive Order 1948

• Civil Rights Act 1957

• Voting Rights Act 1965

What was the result of the Brown versus Board of Education court case in 1954?

• Segregation of public schools became illegal

• Established "separate but equal"

• Allowed African Americans to become teachers

• Legalized segregation in public schools

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

• Organizing the March on Washington

• Winning the court case Plessy vs Ferguson

• Winning the court case of Brown vs Board of Education

• Giving African Americans the right to vote

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

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

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

What happened as a result of Rosa Parks arrest for not giving up her seat on the bus?

• Bloody Sunday

• CORE Sit-ins

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• March on Washington