Civil Rights Common Assessment

When the necessary to achieve justice, which method did Martin Luther King Jr, urge his followers to employ?

• using violence to bring about political change

• engaging in no-violent acts of civil disobedience

• leaving any community in which racism is practiced

In Plessy V. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court ruled that

• states may not secede from the Union

• all western territories should be open to slavery

• racial segregation was okay

"Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." ...Brown v Board of Education The effect of this Supreme Court ruling was to

• Establish affirmative action programs in higher education

• require the desegregation of public schools

• desegregate the armed forces

After the passage of the 13th, 14th, 15th amendments, African Americans continued to experience political and economic oppression mainly because

• the amendments were not intended to solve their problems

• many African Americans distrusted the federal governments

• southern legislatures pass Jim Crow laws

What step was taken following this speech to advance the dream of Martin Luther King, Jr?

• desegregation of the armed forces

• ruling in Plessy vs Ferguson

• passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Which of the following in NOT associated with the Black Power movement?

• Stokely Carmichael

• The Black Panthers

• Martin Luther King

The first organized movement by African Americans to fight segregation was

• the "children's crusade" in Birmingham

• the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott

• the march on Washington

Appealing to many African Americans' anger and frustration over a lack of social and economic power, this organization felt it was necessary for African Americans to form their own country

• Southern Christian Leadership Council

• The Black Panther Party

• Organization of Afro-American Unity

The act that Rosa Parks discusses in the quotation led to:

• The Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Lunch counter sit ins

• Voter registration drives

The changes shown in the Chart were most directly the result of the

• Enactment of voting-reform laws by these southern states

• Supreme Court decision in Brown V Board of Education

• passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965