Civil Rights Movement

What was the result of the Brown v. Board of Education case?

• Segregation in public schools became illegal
• African-Americans began playing profession sports
• Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus
• MLK led a March on Washington

The March on Washington is most famous for...

• causing race riots in Washington, D.C.
• 200,000 people worked together to get the right to vote
• the KKK became an illegal organization
• MLK gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech

What is 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 selected for the Supreme Court

This amendment declared that all persons   born in the United States (except American Indian tribes) were citizens, that   all citizens were entitled to equal rights regardless of their race, and   their rights were protected by due process of the law (1868) (USH.9A)

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th
• 5th

This amendment granted African American men the right to vote (1870) (USH.9A)

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th
• 5th

This act abolished racial, religious, and sex discrimination by employers; unlawful for an employer to “fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges or employment, because of such individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.” (signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson) (USH.9F)

• Civil Rights Act 1964
• Executive Order 1948
• Civil Rights Act 1957
• Voting Rights Act 1965

Thurgood Marshall became _______.

• a president of the United States.
• a principal in a school who fought racism.
• the first African American on the Supreme Court.
• one of the authors of the constitution.

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In 1957, President Eisenhower used federal troops in Little Rock, Arkansas, to

• Eliminate racial discrimination in housing

• allow African Americans to vote in local elections

• integrate the public schools

• admit African Americans to graduate programs

Why did large numbers of African Americans migrate to the North in the early 20th century?

• Northern states offered them free farmland

• Labor unions in the North recruited them as members

• Southern Jim Crow laws restricted their job opportunities

• New laws forced them to leave the South or pay heavy taxes

What strategy did both Martin Luther King Jr. and Cesar Chavez use to achieve social change?

• organized labor unions

• created militant demonstrations

• started riots

• led non violent boycotts