Civil Rights Movement

Who became president after JFK was assassinated?

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Andrew Johnson

• Harry S. Truman

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

Which United States president called in federal troops to support African American students at Little Rock Central High School?

• John F. Kennedy
• Dwight Eisenhower 
• Lyndon Johnson
• Harry S. Truman  

What legal action helped to end segregation in public schools?

• Brown v. Board of Education
• Hernandez v. Texas 
• Plessy v. Ferguson 
• The Civil Rights Act of 1964

The mixing of different racial groups

• boycott
• segregation
• integration 
• civil disobedience

Who was the NAACP lawyer who later became the first African American Supreme Court Judge?

• Orval Faubus 
• Thurgood Marshall
• Earl Warren 
• Martin Luther King, Jr.

The NAACP stands for...

• The National Association for Adding continents and people

• The Nation Association for Advancement of Colored Pencils

• The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• The National Association for the Advertisement of Classes and Paper

During the Montgomery Bus Boycott people were protesting the fact that

• blacks paid more to ride the bus than whites.

• blacks could not ride the bus.

• blacks had to sit separately from whites on the bus.

• blacks had to sit next to whites on the bus.

Which of the following leaders had a more aggressive approach to the Civil Rights movement - "any means necessary"?

• Martin Luther King Jr.
• John Lewis
• Benjamin E. Mays
• Malcolm X

White supremacists of the South supported _______ of public schools

• desegregation
• segregation
• integration
• litigation

The Civil Rights Act of 1964...

• promoted segregation in public schools
• continue enforcing Jim Crow laws across the country
• protected the rights of African-Americans
• allowed states to deny funding to schools that practiced desegregation