Civil Rights Leaders

What president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law?

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Abraham Lincoln

• Lyndon Johnson

• Richard Nicon

Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP used the legal system and court cases to challenge _________ African Americans. 

• discrimination against
• preferential treatment of
• integration of
• accusations of disloyalty against

The most significant legal change after the Supreme Court ruled on Brown v. the Board of Education was:

• Linda Brown was able to go to the University of Alabama.
• Membership in the KKK escalated violence in retaliation.
• Segregation on public transportation was outlawed.
• The end to legal public school segregation based on the principle of separate but equal schools 

Which of the following is an example of the concept of integration: 

• White people sitting in the front of the bus and black people sitting in the back of the bus.
• African Americans workings as maids in white homes.
• Jackie Robinson joining a Major League Baseball team.
• MLK, Jr. speaking with President Kennedy about civil rights issues.

What do all of the following have in common:  Martin Luther King, Jr, Jackie Robinson, and Rosa Parks?

• They all involve marching.
• They all involve not paying for a service.
• They all involve the use of non-violence to accomplish a goal.
• They all involve public speaking.

Why did leaders of the SCLC decide to form SNCC? 

• To get white citizens to join as members
• To get the black youth involved
• To make the movement nonviolent
• To give nationally televised speeches

All of the following are reasons why groups such as CORE and the SCLC were effective EXCEPT:

• They used extreme measures such as forcefully taking over businesses to get on the news regularly.
• They had nationally well-known and respected leaders.
• They were well organized.
• They conducted many non-violent protests.

Who is this?

• Huey Newton
• Muhammad Ali
• Malcolm X
• Elijah Muhammed

Who is this?

• Stokely Carmichael
• Emmett Till
• Thurgood Marshall
• Medgar Evers

Which slain civil rights leader said "You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea"?

• Medgar Evers
• Thurgood Marshall
• Malcolm X
• Martin Luther King, Jr.