Civil Rights Movement

Who was the main leader of the Civil Rights Movement?

• Thurgood Marshall

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Jackie Robinson

These African American teenagers were the first to integrate into Little Rock Central High

• Elite Eight

• Little Rock Nine

• Arkansas Seven

• Final Four

Keeping things or people separate 

• integration

• discrimination

• DISTRACTION!

• segregation

Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal

• allow children to work.

• to pay black people less than white people.

• to return a slave.

• to segregate schools.

Who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus?

• Charlayne Hunter

• Harriet Tubman

• Rosa Parks

• Rebecca L. Felton

The main goal of the freedom riders was to 

• pressure the federal government to enforce the law banning segregation on interstate buses

• inspire students to protest in Birmingham against Jim Crow

• encourage Congress to pass Kennedy's civil rights agenda

• desegregate urban bus systems in the south

What was the major goal of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s?

• to end racial segregation

• to reduce prejudice against Mexican-American immigrants

• to reform prison conditions

• to improve living conditions for Native American Indians

Which conclusion about the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s is most valid?

• The movement failed to inspire other groups

• Civil disobedience successfully brought about legislative changes

• All races had a common goal but different ways for achieving them

• The movement began violently but ended with peaceful demonstrations

Where was the famous bus boycott?

• Montgomery, AL

• Atlanta, GA

• Jackson, MS

• Baton Rouge, LA

The March on Washington is most famous for...

• causing race riots in Washington, D.C.

• 200,000 people worked together to get the right to vote

• the KKK became an illegal organization

• MLK gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech