Civil Rights Movement

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.

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.

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.

CORE successfully integrated many restaurants by using...

• protest marches.
• boycotts.
• sit-ins.
• threats.

The organization founded by student civil rights activists was...

• SNCC.
• CORE.
• NAACP.
• SCLC.

What was the result of the Brown v. Board of Education case?

• Segregation in public schools became illegal
• African-Americans began playing profession sports
• Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus
• MLK led a March on Washington

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 kind of marches did Martin Luther King Jr. lead?

• large

• mad

• nonviolent

• violent

Thurgood Marshall became _______.

• a president of the United States.
• a principal in a school who fought racism.
• the first African American on the Supreme Court.
• one of the authors of the constitution.