Civil Rights Quiz

This famous civil rights leader wanted equal rights "by any means necessary"

• Martin Luther King

• Malcolm Luther King

• Malcolm X

• Malcolm Y

Rosa Parks led a boycott of buses to protest segregation in which city?

• Birmingham

• Atlanta

• Montgomery

• Greensboro

This famous civil rights leader gave the "I Have A Dream" speech in the March On Washington

• Malcolm Luther King

• Malcolm X

• Martin Luther King

• Malcolm Y

This word means to separate people by race

• segregation

• integration

• determination

• disintegration

This famous court case from the late 1800's stated that segregation was okay as long as it was "separate but equal"

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• The People vs. Martin Luther King

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

• Batman vs. Superman

Which famous court case from the 1950's forced all schools in America to integrate?

• The People vs. Martin Luther King

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• Batman vs. Superman

This law banned the use of literacy tests and poll taxes in the United States

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Equal Rights Amendment of 1964

• Racial Freedom Act of 1965

True of False - On average, men and women in America make the same amount of money for the same type of jobs

• True

• False

 An African American women who was asked to give up her seat on the bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama was

• Harriet B. Stowe
• Rosa Parks
• Michelle Obama
• Coretta King

Brown vs. Board of Education was a famous case heard by the United States Supreme Court in 1954. The court ruled that it is illegal to:

• Allow children to work long hours in factories
• Segregate schools based on people’s skin color
• Pay black people less than white people for similar work
• Return an escaped slave to his/her master