Civil Rights Movement - Events

Who is consider the main leader of the Civil Rights Movement?

• Thurgood Marshall

• Malcolm X

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Rosa Parks

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

• Little Rock 9

• Arkansas 8

• Final 4

• Freedom Riders

Keeping things or people separate 

• SNCC

• Integration

• Discrimination

• Segregation

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

• to institute poll taxes

• to segregate K-12 schools

• to pay black Americans less than white Americans

• to violate the 15th amendment

The court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Roe v. Wade

• Irene Morgan v. Virginia

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

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Freedom Riders

• Rosa Parks

• John Lewis

The main goal of the Freedom Riders was to 

• pressure the federal government to enforce the Supreme Court's banning of segregation on interstate buses

• inspire students to protest in Birmingham against Jim Crow

• encourage Congress to pass President Kennedy's civil rights agenda

• desegregate city bus systems in the south

How did the approach of the Black Panthers differ from the methods used by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?

• Black Panthers were willing to use violence, while Dr. King used only non-violence

• Black Panthers sought to use the court system, while Dr. King preferred passive resistance

• Black Panters believed in non violence, while Dr. King favored civil disobedience

• Black Panters employed peaceful demonstrations, while Dr. King favored sit-ins and freedom rides

Which of the following is NOT a major goal of the civil rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s?

• Desegregation of public facilties

• Ability to vote

• Enforce the 14th amendment

• Equal pay for equal work

What organization created by W.E.B. Dubois uses legal action to achieve equality for minorities?

• SCLC

• SNCC

• NAACP

• CORE