Civil Rights Quiz

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

The civil rights movement began in 1955 with the _________________.

• Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education
• "I Have a Dream" speech
• March on Washington
• Montgomery Bus Boycott

To separate one group from another is ___________________.

• integration
• segregation
• Civil Rights Movement
  Jim Crow

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Who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus?

• Charlayne Hunter
• Harriet Tubman
• Rosa Parks
• Rebecca L. Felton

Father of the Civil Rights Movement, "I have a dream" speech at the March on Washington

• Lester Maddox
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Andrew Young
• Benjamin Mays

Court case that ruled that segregated schools are inherently unequal, ending the separate but equal doctrine.

• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Sweatt v. Painter
• Delgado v. Bastrop ISD

Nonviolent protest, where protesters occupied space in order to protest segregation.

• Sit-In
• Freedom Rides
• Selma March
• Filibuster

What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlaw?

• denying the right to vote based on race or color

• denying the right to vote based on gender

• allowing people to vote multiple times

• allowing people under the age of 21 to vote

What were the laws designed to keep white people and black people apart called?

• Segregation Laws

• Jim Crow Laws

• Seperation Laws

• Separate but Equal Laws