CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT TEST

Which lawyer worked with the NAACP on the Brown v. Board of Education case?

• Rosa Parks
• James Farmer
• Jackie Robinson
• Thurgood Marshall

What strategy did the NAACP adopt in its fight for civil rights?

• massive resistance
• attacking racism in the courts
• direct nonviolence
• sit-ins

 What was the common goal of the sit-in movement and the Freedom Rides?

• to seek legal remedies to inequality
• to end segregation in all public areas
• to end segregation in public schools
• to force segregation to respond violently

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

• banned discrimination in employment and public housing.
• abolished the poll tax and literacy tests.
• gave African Americans the right to vote.
• abolished slavery.

Who did the Southern Christian Leadership Conference elect as its first leader?

• Rosa Parks
• Jackie Robinson
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Thurgood Marshall

People who traveled in buses through the South to draw attention to segregation of bus station facilities.

• Black Power
• Freedom Riders
• Jackie Robinson
• NAACP 

A movement among African Americans that many critics believed was a call to violent action and that created a split in the civil rights movement.

• Black Power       
• Bloody Sunday
• sit-ins
• Nation of Islam

First African American to play major league baseball

• Jackie Robinson
• Kenny Washington
• Hattie McDaniel
• Guy Bluford

Adopted a legal strategy in its fight for civil rights.

• NAACP 
• SCLC
• SNCC
• Black Panther

The Selma March is also known as ____. 

• Bloody Sunday
• Black Sunday
• Bloody Tuesday
• Black Tuesday