Civil Right Movement Quiz

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

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

What organization did W.E.B. Du Bois found?

• The Back to Africa Movement

• Tuskegee Institute

• NAACP

• Access for all movement

What kind of marches did Martin Luther King Jr. lead?

• large

• mad

• nonviolent

• violent

The Freedom Riders were a group of African Americans and Whites who rode buses to..?

• Encourage A.A.'s to leave the south and move north

• to protest racial segregation throughout the south

• to promote membership in the KKK

• to gain support for the Vietnam war

Which court cause over-turned Plessy v. Ferguson

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Roe v. Wade

• Marbury v. Madison

What was the Civil Rights Movement

• Civil lawyers voted to move the courts to cities

• African Americans fought against racial discrimination and segregation

• Whites fought to preserve segregation

• Hispanics voters fought for the right to vote

Led anti-discrimination marches and protests throughout the South

• The Bourbon Class

• The Board of Education

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• Ku Klux Klan

A group of college students who held sit-ins at segregated restaurants along with promoted voter registration:

• Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

• Children of MLK Together

• All Civil Rights Activists United

• Tuskegee Coalition

The Civil Rights Act of 1964:

• The law banned the use of civil lawyers in a court room

• Law that banned Civil Rights protests in Washington

• A play performed on Broadway about Martin Luther King Jr.

• This law banned discrimination against any American because of race/color/religion