Early Civil Rights Movement Review 1

President Harry Truman advanced the cause of civil rights for African Americans by

• ordering the desegregation of the Armed Forces.

• appointing the first African American to the Supreme Court.

• supporting the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments.

• establishing affirmative action policies for industry.

Martin Luther King, Jr. first emerged as a leader of the civil rights movement when he

• led the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.

• refused to give up his seat on a bus to a white man.

• challenged the authority of the Supreme Court.

• was elected as the first black congressman from the South.

Which statement most closely reflects the views of Martin Luther King, Jr.?

• All Americans have a right to equality. Any means, including violence, can be used to attain it.

• African Americans must be patient and aim first for economic advancement. Social and political equality will come later.

• Unjust laws must be disobeyed and the consequences accepted peacefully.

• African Americans must be patient and aim first for economic advancement. Social and political equality will come later.

The main reason the Voting Rights Act of 1965 removed the literacy test as a voting qualification was that

• different standards of literacy had been applied to different groups of voters.

• a majority of voters were unable to read election ballots.

• technology had made voter literacy unnecessary.

• the cost of achieving literacy was too high.

Information provided by the map most clearly supports the conclusion that by 1964 racial desegregation of Southern schools was

• failing in Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, and West Virginia.

• supported by most voters in the South.

• occurring at different rates in Southern states.

• completed by the mid-1960s.

The situation shown in this 1950 photograph is a direct result of the

• Great Migration.

• application of grandfather clauses.

• passage of Jim Crow laws.

• Montgomery bus boycott.

The civil rights movement began in 1955 with the _________________.

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education

• March on Washington

• "I Have a Dream" speech

To separate one group from another is ___________________.

• integration

• segregation

• Civil Rights Movement

• Jim Crow

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

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 public schools.