Civil Rights Movement

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

Thurgood Marshall was famous for being the first African-American Supreme Court Justice and....

• Assassinating JFK
• Organizing the March on Washington
• Winning the Brown v. the Board of Education case
• Giving African-Americans the right to vote

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

Which of the following best describes the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• Segregation on buses became illegal after a couple of days of boycotting
• Segregation on buses became illegal after months of boycotting
• African-Americans blocked the streets preventing buses from operating
• Martin Luther King was arrested for not giving up his seat

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

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

What event occurred at the marked location?

• The March on Washington
• The passing of the 24th Amendment
• The assassination of MLK
• The Montgomery Bus Boycott

Why were the Little Rock Nine unable to attend Central High School on September 4, 1957?

• President Dwight D. Eisenhower had sent U.S. Army troops to the school.

• The governor of Arkansas had ordered troops from the state's National Guard to stop them.

• An angry mob prevented the students from entering the building

• The U.S. Supreme Court had ruled against segregation in Brown v. Board of Education.