Civil Rights Movement - Key Events

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.

Rosa Parks is most associated with

• March on Washington
• militant movements.
• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Brown v. Board of Education

What is the name of the group of African American students who were enrolled into an all white high school but faced heavy backlash?

• Freedom Riders
• Little Rock Nine
• The Squad
• Montomery Men

What type of protest took place in Greensboro, NC in 1960?

• peace march
• Freedom Ride
• sit-in
• boycott

During the Montgomery City Boycott (of Rosa Parks fame), African Americans and their allies walked instead of:

• Driving to their job each day.
• Paying for a taxi each day to work.
• Riding the local buses to work each day.
• There was no boycott.

Who traveled south to test whether buses were integrating or not?

• Freedom Writers
• Freedom Riders
• Freedom Tarcs
• Freedom Tacos

After Rosa Parks was arrested, who led the protest to boycott busses called the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Rosa Parks

• Thurgood Marshall

• John F. Kennedy

What was the 1963 march led by Martin Luther King Jr. in which more than 250,000 people marched through Washington, D.C. called?

• March on DC

• March on Washington

• Marching Orders

• Trail through Washington

What is the name of MLK's most famous speech?

• I Can See it Now

• I Have a Plan

• I Have a Dream

• Dreams

The main goal of the freedom riders was to

• pressure the federal government to enforce the law banning segregation on interstate buses

• inspire students to protest in Birmingham against Jim Crow

• encourage Congress to pass Kennedy's civil rights agenda

• desegregate urban bus systems in the south