Modern Civil Rights Movement

What court case established “separate but equal” in public facilities?

• Marbury v. Madison

• US v. Nixon

• Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

• Plessy v. Ferguson

What 2 civil rights icons were affiliated with the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• Rosa Parks and Malcolm X

• Stokely Carmichael and Malcolm X

• Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.

• Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X

The students who needed federal government intervention to enroll in high school in Arkansas became known as the

• Little Rock Nine

• Central High Nine

• Eisenhower Nine

• Arkansas Nine

The first major sit-in took place at a lunch counter in what city?

• Birmingham, Alabama

• Scottsboro, North Carolina

• Jackson, Mississippi

• Montgomery, Alabama

The attempt to inform the public of the discrimination in interstate transit was referred to as

• Sit-ins

• Selma to Montgomery March

• Freedom rides

• March on Washington

What term refers to the separation of people by race?

• Integration

• Deintegration

• Desegregation

• Segregation

During what war did African American and other minority groups make such a contribution that the Civil Rights Movement began in earnest?

• WWI

• Vietnam War

• Korean War

• WWII

Truman’s main contribution to the Civil Rights Movement was

• Desegregation of public facilities

• Desegregation of the military

• Desegregation of interstate transportation

• Desegregation in his home state

Boycotts, Marches, and Sit-ins are examples of what type of protests?

• Civil disobedience

• Lack of control

• Government oppression

• Violent opposition

SNCC was made up mostly of what people?

• Women

• College students

• Older religious leaders

• White supremacists