The Civil Rights Movement

Which type of protest did Martin Luther King oppose during the Civil Rights Movement?

• Sit-in
• Bus Boycott
• March on Washington
• Race Riots

What was the result of the Brown versus Board of Education court case in 1954?

• Segregation of public schools became illegal
• African Americans began to play professional sports
• Martin Luther King led the March on Washington
• Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus

Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice, first became famous for which of the following:

• Organizing the March on Washington
• Not giving us his bus seat
• Winning the court case of Brown versus Board of Education
• Giving African Americans the right to vote

Who was the U.S. Senator who was assassinated while running for president in 1968?

• Robert Kennedy
• John Kennedy
• Martin Luther King
• Lee Harvey Oswald

What was the purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

• It gave black women the right to vote
• It made literacy tests in order to vote illegal
• It made Jim Crow Laws illegal
• It gave all blacks the right to vote

What was the purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

• It made Jim Crow Laws illegal
• It allowed blacks to run for public office
• It ended segregation in schools
• It made poll taxes illegal

The March on Washington was most famous because . . .

• it caused race riots in the nation's Capital
• 200,000 people worked together to help blacks get the right to vote
• the KKK became an illegal organization because of the march
• Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I have a Dream: speech, which inspired hundreds of thousands to help the Civil Rights Movement

Which of the following best describes the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• Segregation on buses became illegal a few days after Rosa Parks began the protest
• Thousands of blacks blocked the streets so that buses could not finish their routes
• Martin Luther King was arrested for not giving up his seat to a white person
• Segregation of buses became illegal after many months of protesting

How did the assassination of MLK affect the Civil Rights Movement?

• It had no effect
• The movement continued because he wasn't that important
• People were heartbroken and the movement slowed
• The movement gained strength because people of all races were outraged

Why was President JFK very popular with African Americans?

• He helped organize the March on Washington
• He made poll taxes and literacy tests illegal
• He wasn't popular with African Americans
• He was very involved in Civil Rights and introduced the Civil Rights Bill