Civil Rights quiz #1

Answer True or False: Brown vs. Board of Education made segregated schools illegal.

• True

• False

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

• Dr. King

• Thurgood Marshall

• Rosa Parks

• Jackie Robinson

Argued Brown VS. Board of Education before the Supreme Court and then became the first Black Supreme Court Justice

• Stokely Carmichael
• Rosa Parks
• Thurgood Marshall
• Orval Faubus

He used the military to protect the Little Rock 9 as they entered the newly desegregated school, demonstrating Federal power.

• Truman

• Eisenhower

• MLK Jr.

• Kennedy

What did the Supreme Court rule about segregation in the case Plessy v. Ferguson?

• "Separate but Equal is Equal"

• Segregation was unconstitutional

• Schools must be integrated

• Poll taxes were illegal

The Little Rock Nine

• were nine high school students who integrated Central High School.
• were nine activists who organized lunch counter sit-ins.
• were nine protesters injured on Bloody Sunday.
• were the nine Supreme Court Justices.

Which of the following best describes the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• Segregation on buses became illegal a few days after Rosa Parks began the protest

• Thousands of blacks blocked the streets so that buses could not finish their routes

• Martin Luther King was arrested for not giving up his seat to a white person

• Segregation of buses in Montgomery, Alabama became illegal after many months of boycotting

In the 1954 trial of Brown v Board of Education, the US Supreme Court ruled that

• private schools should be controlled by the federal government

• issues of racial segregation should be decided by the states.

• racially segregated public schools are unconstitutional

• the "separate but equal" doctrine should be continued

What was the Civil Rights Movement

• Civil lawyers voted to move the courts to cities

• African Americans fought against racial discrimination and segregation

• Whites fought to preserve segregation

• Hispanics voters fought for the right to vote

Where did the first sit-in take place?

• Montgomery, Alabama

• Greensboro, South Carolina

• Little Rock, Arkansas

• Greensboro, North Carolina