Civil Rights Movement in Texas Mastery Check

This sign is an example of what practice, which means keeping people groups separate from each other based on race?

• segregation

• urbanization

• integration

• emancipation

Which term means refusing to comply with an unjust law as a form of peaceful protest?

• segregation

• lynching

• freedom rides

• civil disobedience

Which Texan civil rights leader was the founder of the Congress Of Racial Equality (CORE)?

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Malcolm X

• James Farmer

• Lulu Belle Madison White

Which of the following was an initiative of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), meant to test the national government's enforcement of the desegregation of interstate transportation?

• Sit-Ins

• Freedom Rides

• March on Washington

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

Which Texan civil rights leader did great work for the Houston chapter of the NAACP, eventually becoming the organizations first female executive secretary?

• Barbara Jordan

• Oveta Culp Hobby

• Ida B. Wells

• Lulu Belle Madison White

What Supreme Court case ruled that separate schools for blacks and whites were "inherently unequal," declaring segregation in schools unconstitutional, and beginning the integration of American schools?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• US v. Nixon

• Miranda v. Arizona

What Texan president signed the Civil Right Act of 1964?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Hector P. Garcia

• Sam Rayburn

• Lyndon B. Johnson

What important peace of legislation ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin?

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Emancipation Proclamation

Which organization was founded in Corpus Christi TX in 1929 , with the goal of ending discrimination against Mexican Americans?

• CORE

• NAACP

• KKK

• LULAC

Who became the first Hispanic Texan to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives, and went on to represent Texas for 38 years?

• Hector P. Garcia

• Erasmo Seguin

• Lorenzo de Zavala

• Henry B. Gonzalez