Civil Rights Movement

Which type of protest did Martin Luther King oppose during the Civil Rights Movement?

• Sit-in

• Bus Boycott

• March on Washington

• Riots

What was the result of the Brown versus Board of Education court case in 1954?

• Segregation of public schools became illegal
• African Americans began to play professional sports
• Martin Luther King led the March on Washington
• Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus

Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice, first became famous for which of the following:

• Organizing the March on Washington
• Not giving us his bus seat
• Winning the court case of Brown versus Board of Education
• Giving African Americans the right to vote

What was the purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

• It gave black women the right to vote
• It made literacy tests in order to vote illegal
• It made Jim Crow Laws illegal
• It gave all blacks the right to vote

The March on Washington was most famous because . . .

• it caused race riots in the nation's Capital
• 200,000 people worked together to help blacks get the right to vote
• the KKK became an illegal organization because of the march
• Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I have a Dream: speech, which inspired hundreds of thousands to help the Civil Rights Movement

Which of the following best describes the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• Segregation on buses became illegal a few days after Rosa Parks began the protest
• Thousands of blacks blocked the streets so that buses could not finish their routes
• Martin Luther King was arrested for not giving up his seat to a white person
• Segregation of buses became illegal after many months of protesting

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 An African American women who was asked to give up her seat on the bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama was

• Harriet B. Stowe
• Rosa Parks
• Michelle Obama
• Coretta King

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To stop using or buying things

• Riot
• Disagreeing
• Boycott
• Capitalism 

an organized passive protests where people sit peacefully and refuse to leave

• Stand up
• Sit in
• Sit down
• Stand in

disobeying certain laws in non-violent ways in order to make a point

• Civil Obedience 
• Civil Disobedience 
• Riots
• Angry protesting