Civil Rights

What were the laws called that were not equal because it didn't give African Americans equal opportunities?

• Jim Bob Laws

• Black Crow Laws

• Jim Crow Laws

Linda Brown's court case was taken to the Supreme Court. They decided that _____________ did not follow the 14th Amendment and became illegal.

• segregation

• desegregation

• going to school

• riding public buses

Who was known as the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement"?

• Linda Brown

• Rosa Parks

• MLK Jr.

• Lyndon B. Johnson

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement. He believed in _____________.

• fighting for rights by force.

• using passive resistance and peaceful protests.

MLK Jr. believed violence would spark more violence

• true

• false

The Montgomery Bus Boycott gave African Americans the freedom to bomb city buses in order to stop discrimination.

• true

• false

MLK Jr. believed that passive resistance would eventually win the Civil Rights Movement.

• True

• False

President John F. Kennedy eventually signed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

• True

• False

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 gave all African Americans the right to vote.

• True

• False

Passed in 1965; banned literacy tests as a condition for voting

• Brown vs. Board of Eduation

• Voting Rights Act

• Civil Rights Act

• Jim Crow Laws