Civil Rights Movement

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

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

Nonviolent protest, where protesters occupied space in order to protest segregation.

• Sit-In
• Freedom Rides
• Selma March
• Filibuster

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.

4. Which of the following is something that can be used to decide whether a person can vote?

• person is a U.S. citizen
• owns a home
• race
• male or female

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.

The act that prohibited racial discrimination in employment and labor unions and in public facilities was the

• national Labor Unions Act of 1955

• Equal Employment Opportunity Act

• Fair Housing Act of 1954

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. worked very hard to do away with racial segregation in the 1950s and 1960s. What was Dr. King’s strategy for promoting social change?

• Dr. King believed that if African Americans received a good education they would be accepted as equals.

• Dr. King encouraged people to protest segregation by staging attacks on public buildings using violence.

• Dr. King developed a nonviolent approach based on the writings of Henry David Thoreau and the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.

• Dr. King believed that every person had equal rights and should gain quality by any means possible.