Civil Rights Movement

Who was the "mother" of the civil rights movement?

• Rosa Parks
• Coretta Scott King
• Michelle Obama
• Oprah Winfrey

_______________ wrote "I Have a Dream" and delivered it to thousands in Washington, DC. 

• Harry Belafonte
• Barack Obama
• Martin Luther King, Jr. 
• Jesse Jackson

To separate one group from another is ___________________.

• integration
• segregation
• Civil Rights Movement
  Jim Crow

Who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus?

• Charlayne Hunter
• Harriet Tubman
• Rosa Parks
• Rebecca L. Felton

Father of the Civil Rights Movement, "I have a dream" speech at the March on Washington

• Lester Maddox
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Andrew Young
• Benjamin Mays

Court case that ruled that segregated schools are inherently unequal, ending the separate but equal doctrine.

• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Sweatt v. Painter
• Delgado v. Bastrop ISD

This banned the use of literacy tests.

• Civil Rights Act
• Civil Rights Movement
• Voting Rights Act
• Jim Crow Law

Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal

• allow children to work.
• to pay black people less than white people.
• to return a slave.
• to segregate schools.

After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, it was no longer legal to

• let African Americans ride the bus.
• deny someone of a job because of their race.
• fire someone for not doing their job.
• kick someone out of the military.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed on April 4th, 1968. His death hit the American people very hard and caused a series of riots in over 100 cities throughout the United States. King of was a leader of which of the following movements?

• civil rights

• emancipation

• women's suffrage

• independence