Civil Rights

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

Act that eliminated the so-called literacy tests that had disqualified many voters.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Brown vs. the Board of Education
• Roe Vs. Wade

What Black Nationalist group was once led by Malcolm X?

• Nation of Islam
• SNCC
• CORE
• Black Panthers

What state laws created separate public facilities for African Americans in the South?

• Jim Crow Laws
• affirmative action
• Civil Rights Acts
• Force Acts

Segregation caused by private action & not legislation

• de facto segregation
• de jure segregation
• affirmative action
• ex post facto segregation

Where did President Eisenhower send the 101st Airborne to enforce integration of a public high school?

• Little Rock, Arkansas
• Tuscaloosa, Alabama
• Birmingham, Alabama
• Jackson, Mississippi

What strategy did the NAACP adopt in its fight for civil rights?

• massive resistance
• attacking racism in the courts
• direct nonviolence
• sit-ins

The Selma March is also known as ____. 

• Bloody Sunday
• Black Sunday
• Bloody Tuesday
• Black Tuesday

Who did the Southern Christian Leadership Conference elect as its first leader?

• Rosa Parks
• Jackie Robinson
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Thurgood Marshall