Unit 6 The Civil Rights Movement

Which type of protest did Martin Luther King oppose during the Civil Rights Movement?

• Sit-in
• Bus Boycott
• March on Washington
• Race Riots

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

What was the purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

• It gave African-American women the right to vote
• It made literacy tests to vote illegal
• It made Jim Crow Laws illegal
• It allowed all African-Americans to vote

Which of the following best describes the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• Segregation on buses became illegal after a couple of days of boycotting
• Segregation on buses became illegal after months of boycotting
• African-Americans blocked the streets preventing buses from operating
• Martin Luther King was arrested for not giving up his seat

To separate one group from another is ___________________.

• integration
• segregation
• Civil Rights Movement
  Jim Crow

Which court cause over-turned Plessy v. Ferguson

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Roe v. Wade

• Marbury v. Madison

The Sibley Commission:

• Printed signs to boycott desegregation

• Helped transition African Americans into white schools

• Held sit-ins at local stores to boycott segregation

• held public hearings to see how Georgians felt about integration

Led anti-discrimination marches and protests throughout the South

• The Bourbon Class

• The Board of Education

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• Ku Klux Klan