The Civil Rights Movement (Lessons 1 and 2)

Which type of protest did Martin Luther King oppose during the Civil Rights Movement?

• Sit-in
• Bus Boycott
• March on Washington
• Race Riots

What was the result of the Brown versus Board of Education court case in 1954?

• Segregation of public schools became illegal
• African Americans began to play professional sports
• Martin Luther King led the March on Washington
• Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus

Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice, first became famous for which of the following:

• Organizing the March on Washington
• Not giving us his bus seat
• Winning the court case of Brown versus Board of Education
• Giving African Americans the right to vote

What was the purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

• It made Jim Crow Laws illegal
• It allowed blacks to run for public office
• It ended segregation in schools
• It made poll taxes illegal

The March on Washington was most famous because . . .

• it caused race riots in the nation's Capital
• 200,000 people worked together to help blacks get the right to vote
• the KKK became an illegal organization because of the march
• Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I have a Dream: speech, which inspired hundreds of thousands to help the Civil Rights Movement

Which of the following best describes the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• Segregation on buses became illegal a few days after Rosa Parks began the protest
• Thousands of blacks blocked the streets so that buses could not finish their routes
• Martin Luther King was arrested for not giving up his seat to a white person
• Segregation of buses became illegal after many months of protesting

These were restrictions on voting for African Americans -

• poll taxes

• literacy tests

• grandfather clause

• unfair exams that were sometimes written in Latin

Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.

• Sweatt V. Painter

• Brown V. Board of Education

• Plessy V. Ferguson

• Hernandez V. Texas

Helped establish the precedent that "seperate but equal" education and other services was not equal at all -

• Plessy V. Ferguson

• Brown V. Board of Education

• Sweatt V. Painter

• Hernandez V. Texas

Which leader of the civil rights movement used non-violent civil disobedience to oppose segregation in the south?

• Dolores Huerta

• Malcom X

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Ceaser Chavez