The Fast and the Curious - The Civil Rights Era

1954 Supreme Court Case that ended the "separate but equal" policy or segregation in public schools, stating it was a violation of the 14th Amendment?

• Brown vs. Board of Education Topeka Kansas

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

• Miranda vs. Arizona

• McCulloch vs. Maryland

On Dec. 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat & was arrested, as a result African Americans set up this that lasted more than a year?

• The Freedom Riders

• The Freedom Summer

• The March on Washington

• The Montgomery Bus Boycott

An organization founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King Jr. who was influenced by the non-violent tactics of civil disobedience was called?

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

• Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

An organization formed to help people across the South launch sit-ins.

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

• Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

On February 1, 1960, four African-American students purposely sat at a white-only lunch counter inside a North Carolina Woolworth’s store. The staff refused to serve them but they returned day after day with more and more people. This event was called?

• The Greensboro Sit-in

• The Freedom Summer

• The Little Rock 9

• The Freedom Riders

Martin Luther King Jr. spoke on national television about the need for civil rights and introduced a bill on the issue. In support of this on August 28, 1963 he gave his "I Have A Dream" speech at the scene of what event?

• March on Washington

• Freedom Summer

• Freedom Riders

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

In May 1961, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) sent African Americans and Whites to ride together on interstate buses to segregated bus stations planning to refuse to obey racial restrictions.

• Freedom Riders

• Freedom Summer

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• March on Washington

Civil Rights legislation that outlawed discriminatory voting practices, ended segregation in public places and schools, established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and allowed the government to enforce the law was called?

• The Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Brown vs. Board of Education Topeka Kansas

• The Voting Rights Act of 1965

• The 24th Amendment

In 1964 the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sent Northern students to organize a voter registration drive throughout the South. This was called?

• The Freedom Riders

• The March on Washington

• The Freedom Summer

• The Selma Voting Rights March

Civil Rights legislation allowing the Federal government to protect all people's right to vote was called?

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• 15th Amendment

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• 24th Amendment