Civil Rights Review

Court case declared that separate black and white public schools to be unconstitutional.

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

When African Americans refused to ride the public busses as a sign of protest; this began when Rosa Parks was jailed for refusing to give up her seat to a white man.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• March on Washington

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• 15th Amendment

Which description best fits the "Little Rock Nine"?

• a group of soldiers who protested segregation in the U.S. military

• a group of African American high school students who enrolled in a white school

• a group of white students who dropped out of school to protest integration

• a group of college students who led the Montgomery bus boycott

What was the purpose of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• to maintain segregation of public transportation in Alabama

• to end segregation of public transportation in Alabama

Which U.S. President signed the Civil Rights Acts of 1964, 1965, & 1968 into law?

• John F. Kennedy

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Richard Nixon

• Gerald Ford

What does the NAACP stand for?

• National Association and Allegiance of Cleaning People

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• Numerical Alliance for the Advancement of Calculus and Physics

• National Association of Astronauts Colonizing Planets

Based on the map, which was NOT a state that the Freedom Riders rode through?

• Virginia

• Georgia

• Florida

• Alabama

 Martin Luther King Jr believed in

• Violent protests
• Really loud protests
• Non-violent protests
• Violence  when needed protests

This law banned all literacy tests that kept many African Americans from voting.

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Civil Rights Movement

• 24th Amendment

The main goal of the freedom riders was to 

• pressure the federal government to enforce the law banning segregation on interstate buses
• inspire students to protest in Birmingham against Jim Crow
• encourage Congress to pass Kennedy's civil rights agenda
• desegregate urban bus systems in the south