Unit 9: Civil Rights TEST

* Lunch counter sit-ins

*Bus Boycotts

*March on Washington

*March to Selma

The events above and the accompanying picture are all associated with what period in US history?

• Progressive Era

• Vietnam War Protests

• Civil Rights Movement

• Women's Rights Movement

What legislation prohibited discrimination based on color, race, or religion, gender and national origin in public places?

• Brown v Board of Education

• Civil Equality Act of 1961

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1968

Lester Maddox took opposition to the federal government after the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed. Which action describes how he took action against the progression of the Civil Rights Movement?

• He became a state senator and worked to block any bills granting equality to blacks.

• He posted signs around his town protesting integration and made speeches on TV

• He closed his restaurant because he refused to serve blacks after integration was passed.

• He refused to send his children to the same school as black children after schools integrated.

During which 1963 event did Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. give his famous "I Have A Dream" speech about his vision for America and the South?

• The Albany Movement

• The 1966 Atlanta Olympics

• The Montgomery Bus Boycott

• The March on Washington

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. favored bring about social change through...

• Unity

• Democracy

• Compromise

• Nonviolence

The case of Brown v Board of Education came from the Brown family from ....

• Atlanta, Georgia

• Topeka, Kansas

• Charlotte, North Carolina

• Macon, Georgia

When blacks and whites go to school together, it is called

• Segregation

• Education

• Integration

• Property Rights

The purpose of the Sibley Commission was to

• Study the problem of school integration

• Develop a plan for securing jobs for blacks

• set up a series of meetings to bring blacks and whites together

• make recommendations fort he desegregation of public transportation

In an attempt to show disdain to the Supreme Court decisions such as Brown v Board of Education, in 1956...

• Georgia's legislature voted to change the flag to incorporate the Confederate battle flag.

• Georgia's legislature voted to pass tax reform,

• Georgia's legislators violated the 13th Amendment

• Georgia's legislators passed the 15th Amendment

Who is being described?

-Leader of the civil rights movement

-Believed in non-violence

-Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

-Assassinated in Memphis, TN

• Benjamin Mays

• Martin Luther King, Jr

• John F. Kennedy

• Andrew Young