Unit 5 Civil Rights Movement

What is being described below?

Equal rights in politics, society, and the economy.

• Civil Rights

• Equality Policy

• Non-discrimination Policy

• America

What is being described below?

A nonviolent method of fighting Jim Crow laws.

• Obedience

• Violent Ignorance

• Civil Disobedience

• Rebellion

Who is being described below?

Fantastic speaker, leader of the nonviolent Civil Rights Movement, a preacher, felt very strongly about changing the world for good.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Diane Nash

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King Jr.

What started the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• The Montgomery Riot

• Rosa Park's arrest

• MLK's arrest

• The new law against foot travel

What was the purpose of the Freedom Rides?

• To travel across the country on a bus

• To protest the discrimination in restaurants

• To create a crisis in order to force the federal government to enforce the law.

• To force the bus company to put nicer bathrooms in the buses

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

• Brown lost

• The Board of Education won

• Schools stayed segregated

• Schools were desegregated

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

How did the assassination of MLK affect the Civil Rights Movement?

• The movement gained strength because people were upset
• The movement slowed without MLK's leadership
• The movement continued because MLK wasn't an important part of it
• There was not change in the movement at all

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