Civil Rights Movement

The Plessy v. Ferguson ruling of 1896 established that laws segregating African Americans were permitted in the so-called...

• "de facto segregation" doctrine.
• "Southern segregation" doctrine.
• "separate but equal" doctrine.
• "constitutional segregation" doctrine.

Which event led to the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama?

• a riot in Montgomery
• the CORE sit-in
• the arrest of Rosa Parks
• a church bombing

Brown v. Education was a significant case because...

• it declared it illegal to prevent African Americans from voting.
• it declared it illegal to segregate to segregate restaurants.
• it declared it illegal to segregate public schools.
• it declared it illegal to discriminate in the selling of a house.

How did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 help African Americans?

• The act authorized the U.S. attorney general to send federal employees to register voters.
• The act suspended literacy tests in counties where less than half of all adults were registered to vote.
• The act outlawed discrimination in housing sales and rentals.
• The act gave the federal government more power to force school desegregation.

Which group worked to fight segregation and other inequalities primarily through the courts?

• NAACP
• SNCC
• SCLC
• AIM

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. believed that the only moral way to end segregation and racism was through...

• violence and riots.
• the political system.
• education.
• nonviolent passive resistance.

What was the purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

• It made Jim Crow Laws illegal
• It allowed African-Americans to run for political office
• It ended segregation in school
• It made poll taxes illegal

What was the purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

• It gave African-American women the right to vote
• It made literacy tests to vote illegal
• It made Jim Crow Laws illegal
• It allowed all African-Americans to vote

The March on Washington is most famous for...

• causing race riots in Washington, D.C.
• 200,000 people worked together to get the right to vote
• the KKK became an illegal organization
• MLK gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech

What is the purpose of the 24th Amendment?

• It ended slavery
• It ended segregation based on race
• It made poll taxes illegal
• It made it legal for Thurgood Marshall to be selected for the Supreme Court