Civil Rights Movement FAC

What is one way that Thurgood Marshall contributed to the Civil Rights movement?

• He won the court case Brown v. Board of Education which led to the desegregation of public schools.

• He introduced the Civil Rights Act of 1965 which increased equality in the American workplace.

• He pressured the Supreme Court to pass a voting rights bill that made poll taxes and literacy tests illegal.

• He overturned the court case Dred Scott v. Sandford which led to the end of slavery in the United States.

The policy of "separate but equal" was used to

• increase the number of political parties.

• justify the practice of legal racial segregation.

• prevent the passage of unfair laws.

• halt the creation of independent school districts.

 An African American women who was asked to give up her seat on the bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama was

• Harriet B. Stowe
• Rosa Parks
• Michelle Obama
• Coretta King

 Martin Luther King Jr gave the famous “I Have A Dream” speech at what event?

• Freedom Rides
• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• March on Washington
• March from  Selma to Montgomery

 Martin Luther King Jr believed in

• Violent protests
• Really loud protests
• Non-violent protests
• Violence  when needed protests

This law banned all literacy tests that kept many African Americans from voting. 

• Civil Rights Act
• Voting Rights Act
• Civil Rights Movement
• 24th Amendment

What was the result of the Brown v. Board of Education case?

• Segregation in public schools became illegal
• African-Americans began playing profession sports
• Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus
• MLK led a March on Washington

What protest would Martin Luther King have opposed?

• Sit-In
• Bus Boycott
• March on Washington
• Race Riots

True or False: President John F. Kennedy signed the Civil Rights act of 1957.

• True

• False

What was the Supreme Court's response to Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• Ruled that city buses couldn't be segregated

• African Americans could no longer ride the bus

• Ruled that city buses could be segregated

• It didn't make a ruling