Civil Rights Movement RETEST

How did the Civil Rights Movement change America?

• Kept places separate for African Americans and whites

• Brought back the poll tax

• Gave all Americans rights regardless of race

• Revoked the 15th amendment

Brown vs. Board of Education ruled what?

• Schools had to be closer to students’ homes.

• Linda Brown would need to walk twice as much to

  her elementary school.

• Schools would no longer be segregated.

• The Brown family would need to home school

  their daughter Linda.

What law stopped discrimination based on color, race

or religion in public places?

• Voting Rights Act

• Civil Rights Act

• Civil War Act

• Brown vs. Board of Education

Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott were important because:

• Segregation was no longer allowed on public transportation.

• Bus fees became more affordable for African Americans.

• Martin Luther King Jr. was shot on a bus in Montgomery.

• African Americans were no longer allowed to ride on public buses.

What was the March on Washington?

• a football game

• a march for equal rights

• a march through the state of Washington

• a march against high taxes

Who was Rosa Parks?

• A bus driver

• A speaker at the March on Washington

• A congresswoman from Mississippi

• A woman who refused to give up her seat on a bu

Rosa Parks was arrested here when she refused to giver up her seat on the bus. This was also the site of a major bus boycott.

• Atlanta, Georgia

• Savannah, Georgia

• Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

• Montgomery, Alabama

Martin Luther King Jr. encouraged his followers to

• use violence

• obey laws even when laws were unjust

• fight back when attacked

• use nonviolent protesting to right for equality

The "Jim Crow/Separate but Equal" laws were extremely unfair to African Americans.

• True

• False

Who was Linda Brown’s lawyer and the first African American appointed to the Supreme Court?

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Thurgood Marshall