Civil Rights Review

The decision in Brown v. Board of Education addressed the issue of

• segregation.

• voting rights.

• school funding.

• Affirmative Action.

Select 3 things that were used in the past to keep African Americans from voting.

• literacy tests

• civil rights

• poll taxes

• grandfather clause

African American militants of the late 1960s urged a quest for civil rights through

• nonviolent demonstration and resistance.

• economic boycotts to promote gradual equality.

• forceful demonstrations of "black power."

• legal actions in the courts and legislatures.

The purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the 1964 Freedom Summer Project in Mississippi was

• to force the University of Mississippi to allow African-Americans to attend classes.

• to protest the escalation of the Vietnam War.

• to persuade the all state legislatures to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.

• to help and encourage blacks to become registered voters.

This group coordinated students around the south in resisting segregation laws through non-violent protests, like sit-ins and Freedom Rides.

(a)  

During the Civil Rights era, "Freedom Riders"

• were used to help spread propaganda.

• were used in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

• came to Selma to march for voting rights.

• tested segregation laws in interstate travel (buses).

All of these were effects of the 1965 Voting Rights Act EXCEPT

• greater support for Kennedy's domestic plans.

• Federal oversight of elections in the South.

• an outlawing of literacy tests for voting.

• an increase in African American voters.

Which civil rights leader is credited with raising the self-esteem of black Americans, reconnecting them with their African heritage, and is responsible for the spread of Islam in the black community in the United States in the 1960s?

• Malcolm X
• MLK Jr
• Stokely Carmichael
• Marcus Garvey

(a)  

In what ways did African Americans fight discrimination during the civil rights era?

What landmark Supreme Court case brought an end to legal segregation in public schools?

• New Jersey vs. T.L.O.

• Miranda vs. Arizona

• Brown vs. Board

• Plessy vs. Ferguson