08.10-1 QUIZIZZ: Civil Rights Movement

1. African Americans secured passage of civil rights legislation by -

• electing African Americans to the United States Congress

• working through the court system and mass protests

• pushing for legislation through referendum

• conducting work stoppages around the country

2. The Civil Rights Act of 1964:

• promoted the election of African Americans to public office

• was signed into law by President John F. Kennedy

• led to the appointment of the first African American to the president's Cabinet

• prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, and gender

3. Which person served on the defense team for the NAACP in a landmark court case and went on to become the first African American appointed to the United States Supreme Court?

• Thurgood Marshall

• Oliver Hill

• William Randolph

• Edgar Meavers

4. Which Supreme Court case originally allowed for separate but equal facilities for black and white Americans?

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• Brown v. Topeka Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Marbury v. Madison

5. To which court case does this headline refer?

• Swann v. Charlotte Mecklenburg Board of Education

• Heart of Atlanta v. United States

• Loving v. Virginia

• Brown v. Topeka Board of Education

6. What was the MOST effective way in which the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) opposed segregation?

• conducting bus boycotts

• participating in freedom rides

• holding lunch counter sit-ins

• challenging laws in the courts

7. Which of the following represents a pair of correctly matched ideas and people in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement?

• Julian Bond -> Black Power

• Malcom X -> Non-violent protests

• Martin Luther King, Jr. -> Civil Disobedience

• Rosa Parks -> Conversion to the Nation of Islam

8. In response to the decision handed down in the Brown v. Board decision, Prince Edward County in Virginia

• closed down public schools indefinitely

• immediately began efforts to desegregate their schools

• encouraged its teachers to go on strike

• defied laws and continued to segregate schools

9. The attorney who served as the NAACP's chief counsel and was later the first African American justice on the Supreme Court was

• James Meredith

• Clarence Thomas

• Oliver Hill

• Thurgood Marshall

10. The goal of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 was to protest segregation on city buses by

• placing political pressure on the city leaders to outlaw segregation

• putting economic pressure on the city bus company

• advocating further mass protests that would disrupt the city

• threatening several class-action lawsuits against the city