Civil Rights practice 2022

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave what famous speech during the March on Washington in 1963? 

• Mountaintop
• Letter from a Birmingham Jail
• Georgia Hills
• I Have a Dream 

Lunch counter sit-ins and the actions of freedom riders are examples of steps taken in support of 

• the Americans with Disabilities Act 
• programs dealing with affirmative action 
• nonviolent attempts to oppose segregation
• violent acts by the Black Panthers 

Supreme Court case where the court ruled, "separate but equal is inherently unequal."

• Brown v. Board of Education
• Desegregation
• Lau v. Nichols
• Civil Rights Act

When necessary to achieve justice, which method did Martin Luther King, Jr., urge his followers to employ?

• using violence to bring about political change

• engaging in civil disobedience

• leaving any community in which racism is practiced

• demanding that Congress pay reparations to African Americans

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed in an effort to correct

• racial and gender discrimination

• limitations on freedom of speech

• unfair immigration quotas

• asegregation in the armed forces

Which American president helped to protect the Freedom Riders?

• Abraham Lincoln

• George Bush

• JFK

• Barack Obama

Who refused to give up their seat in 1955 that lead to the bus boycott?

• Thurgood Marshall

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• John F. Kennedy

• Rosa Parks

Many people wanted to help change the voting rights. So, in 1965, about 2000 people joined together to walk 54 miles from _________________ to Montgomery.

• Dothan

• Tuskegee

• Selma

• Phoenix City

True or False: President Johnson signed both the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act during his time in the White House.

• True 
• False

1961-1963 US president

• John F Kennedy

• Lyndon B Johnson

• Gerald Ford

• Jimmy Carter