Civil Rights Vocab. Quiz

What is it called when African Americans would sit at "whites-only" lunch counter to protest segregation?

• Boycott

• School

• Bus

• Sit-in

Which act banned segregation in public places and outlawed discrimination in the workplace?

• The Freedom Summer Act

• The Montgomery Bus Boycott

• The Civil Rights Act of 1964

• The Voting Rights Act of 1965

Segregation in schools was declared unconstitutional because of...

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• the Children's March

• the March on Washington

During the _____________, civil rights groups worked to expand black voting in the South by registering black voters in Mississippi.

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Children's March

• Freedom Summer

• March on Washington

Based on the idea of "separate but equal," segregation was declared legal by

• Brown v. Board of Education

• the Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• the March on Washington

This law banned all literacy tests that kept many African Americans from voting.

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Civil Rights Movement

• 24th Amendment

An organization formed in 1960 to coordinate sit-ins and other protests and to give young blacks a larger role in the civil rights movement.

• affirmative action
• de facto segregation
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 
• National Organization for Women