Civil Rights Movement Assessment

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

• Detroit Dozen

• Little Rock Nine

• Arkansas Seven

• Chicago Five

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

• to segregate schools.

• to integrate schools.

• to pay African Americans more money.

• to pay African Americans less money.

Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.

• Sweatt v. Painter

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• McLaurin v. Oklahoma

True or False: Martin Luther King Jr believed in non violent protests.

• True

• False

True or False: Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist before refusing to give up her bus seat.

• True

• False

In 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke of his dream that the United States would reach a time "... when all God's children, black men and white neb,... will be able to join hands..." This speech expressed his desire to--

• unite all churches into one religious faith

• replace racial segregation with an integrated society

• create a separate nation for African Americans within the United States

• establish religious freedom for Americans

Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the 14th Amendment applied to all racial and ethnic groups facing discrimination -

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Sweatt V. Painter

• Plessy V. Ferguson

• Hernandez V. Texas

What were the defining characteristics of Civil Rights?

• Economic instability, unemployment, breadlines, bank closures, poverty

• OPEC oil problems, conflict in the Middle East, Reaganomics, large military, Cold War ends, NAFTA

• Increased participation of minorities in the political process, Protests, Boycotts, Marches, Desegregation, Integration, Struggle for equality, due process strengthened.

• Communism, containment, Arms Race/Space Race, Red Scare, McCarthyism

What movement during the 1920s helped inspire the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s? 

• Great Migration

• NAACP

• Prohibition

• Harlem Renaissance

What group during the Civil Rights Movement allowed members to use all necessary means to defend and provide for their community?

• SNCC

• Black Panthers

• NAACP

• Southern Peace Corps