Civil Rights Practice Quiz

Lawyer for NAACP, argued Brown v. BOE, 1st African American to sit on Supreme Court

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• James Earl Ray

• Thurgood Marshall

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Rosa Parks

He/she refused to give up a seat on the bus to a white man. Led to Montgomery Bus Boycott.

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• James Earl Ray

• Thurgood Marshall

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Rosa Parks

Assassinated Martin Luther King

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• James Earl Ray

• Thurgood Marshall

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Rosa Parks

Supreme Court case that deemed “separate but equal” constitutional

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• James Earl Ray

• Thurgood Marshall

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Rosa Parks

Leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Organized a number of protests and marches.

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• James Earl Ray

• Thurgood Marshall

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Rosa Parks

Civil Rights activists who rode into the south to help protest the lack of enforcement of civil rights laws.

• Emmett Till

• George Wallace

• Freedom Riders

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools

Resulted in busing of students to different school districts to ensure desegregation

• Emmett Till

• George Wallace

• Freedom Riders

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools

Alabama Governor, outspoken advocate for segregation

• Emmett Till

• George Wallace

• Freedom Riders

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools

14yo African American boy beaten brutally to death in Mississippi

• Emmett Till

• George Wallace

• Freedom Riders

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools

Effectively ended segregation and racial discrimination in public places, government got power to prevent

• Emmett Till

• George Wallace

• Freedom Riders

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools