Civil Rights Movement

What is one way that Thurgood Marshall contributed to the Civil Rights movement?

• He won the court case Brown v. Board of Education which led to the desegregation of public schools.

• He introduced the Civil Rights Act of 1965 which increased equality in the American workplace.

• He pressured the Supreme Court to pass a voting rights bill that made poll taxes and literacy tests illegal.

• He overturned the court case Dred Scott v. Sandford which led to the end of slavery in the United States.

What protest would Martin Luther King have opposed?

• Sit-In
• Bus Boycott
• March on Washington
• Attacks on white homes

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

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

Which event led to the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama?

• a riot in Montgomery
• the CORE sit-in
• the arrest of Rosa Parks
• a church bombing

The Plessy v. Ferguson ruling of 1896 established that laws segregating African Americans were permitted in the so-called...

• "de facto segregation" doctrine.
• "Southern segregation" doctrine.
• "separate but equal" doctrine.
• "constitutional segregation" doctrine.

Which group worked to fight segregation and other inequalities primarily through the courts?

• NAACP
• SNCC
• SCLC
• AIM

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. believed that the only moral way to end segregation and racism was through...

• violence and riots.
• the political system.
• education.
• nonviolent passive resistance.

The Southern Manifesto encouraged white Southerners to...

• defy the Supreme Court.
• embrace desegregation.
• march against civil rights.
• obey local law enforcement.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. drew on the philosophy and techniques of...

• John F. Kennedy.
• Frederick Douglass.
• Thurgood Marshall.
• Mohandas Gandhi.