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Civil Rights Movement Questions

Authored by Andrew Luckenbill

History

11th Grade

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Civil Rights Movement Questions
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which Supreme Court decision stated that segregation was legal in the south with the phrase “separate but equal”?

Miranda v. Arizona

Plessy v. Ferguson

Brown v. Board of Education

Roe v. Wade

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The refusal of which person to give up his/her seat led to the bus boycott of Montgomery?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Malcolm X

Rosa Parks

Gloria Steinem

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which president signed into law the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

Lyndon Johnson

John Kennedy

Richard Nixon

Dwight Eisenhower

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This NAACP lawyer involved with the Brown v. Board of Education decision later became the first African American Supreme Court justice.

John Marshall

Clarence Thomas

Bobby Seale

Thurgood Marshall

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following Civil Rights figures wrote the “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rosa Parks

Thurgood Marshall

Malcolm X

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following is a belief of Martin Luther King Jr.?

violent and militant protests

segregation of the races

nonviolent peaceful protests

taking what you want with force

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What did the Supreme Court decide with their ruling in Brown v. Board of Education?

the government could not force the states to integrate

discrimination in employment was unconstitutional

segregation in public schools was constitutional

segregation in public schools was unconstitutional

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