Civil Rights Test

In the Brown vs. Board ruling, the Supreme Court declared that separate public education for African Americans...

• Was constitutional

• Was allowed in states that legally enforced segregation

• Was legal under the precedent set by the Plessy decision

• Violated the right to equal protection under the law

Which lawyer worked with the NAACP on the Brown v. Board of Education case?

• Rose Parks

• James Farmer

• Jackie Robinson

• Thurgood Marshall

Jim Crow was...

• Laws in the south that applied only to blacks in an effort to restrict their freedom

• A famous black actor that fought for civil rights for the freed slaves

• Federal segregation laws throughout the Northern states that took away the right to vote

• The author of the Emancipation Proclamation that stated all slaves were free after the Civil War

SNCC stands for...

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

• Southern National Christians

• Southern Negro Conference

• Segregated Non-Conformists

College students used a non-violent protest tactic called ________, to desegregate whites-only lunch counters.

• Strikes

• Sit-ins

• Marches

• Riots

The _______ Act of 1965 ended the use of literacy tests as a requirement for voter registration in many cities and towns.

• Johnson

• Voting Rights

• Jim Crow

• Brown

Mose Wright is considered a brave man because he...

• Served on the jury that convicted the men who killed Emmett Till

• Organized and led the March on Washington

• Identified the man who killed his nephew Emmett Till

• Wrote the speech Martin Luther King Jr. delivered demanding equal rights

Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees due process and equal protection rights to all citizens?

• The 14th amendment

• The 15th amendment

• The 16th amendment

• The 17th amendment

A woman's arrest after her refusal to move to the back of the bus triggered a citywide boycott of what city's bus system?

• Atlanta, Georgia

• Charleston, South Carolina

• Memphis, Tennessee

• Montgomery, Alabama

This was a tax meant to keep poor black people from voting.

• Voter Tax

• Poll Tax

• Ballot Tax

• Black Tax