🎇CIVIL RIGHTS PRE-TEST SLO SPRING 2023

1. Keeping people separate based on the color of their skin is called what?

• Segregation
• Integration
• Deportation
• Transportation

2. In the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education case, the Supreme Court ruled…

• "Separate is NOT equal"
• "Separate but equal"
• "Segregation shall continue"
• "Freedom at last"

3. Which of the following was a tactic used to suppress voter registration?

• A. Poll taxes.
• B. Jim Crow Laws.
• C. A voter literacy test given to African Americans in the South.
• D. All of these tactics were used.

4. The quote above best represents King's support of…

• Violence and aggressive tactics to demand change

• Nonviolence and peaceful resistance to achieve change

• Negotiation and bargaining to seek change

• Refusal to seek change to accept the current conditions

5.Which of these events is credited as being the spark that ignited the Civil Rights movement

• Ruby Bridges integrating Louisiana public schools

• Emmett Till being unjustly murdered and his murderers getting away with it

• Minniejean Brown getting expelled from Central High School

• None of the above

6. Which of the following is an example of a Jim Crow law?

• Black people having to use separate railcars
• Black people having to use separate drinking fountains
• Black people having to sit in the back of buses
• All of the above

7. The photograph below represents a result of which event

• The murder of Emmett Till in 1955

• Claudette Colvin's refusal to give up her seat on a segregated bus

• Martin Luther King Jr. elected President of the Montgomery Improvement Association

• The Little Rock 9 attending the newly desegregated Central High School

8. During the protests for the desegregation of Birmingham, how did the news media play a role?

• Newspapers showed images of people at lunch counters having food thrown at them

• The news broadcast images of buses being firebombed by the KKK

• Images of people being sprayed with fire hoses and bitten by police dogs were broadcast on the news

• The media showed all of these activities

9. One accomplishment of the ___________ was bringing about a federal ban on segregation in all interstate travel facilities.

• A. Little Rock Nine.

• B. Freedom riders.

• C. Malcolm X

• D. Freedom summer.

10. The movie "Hidden Figures", was based on the contribution of African-American female mathematicians and engineers to which organization?

• A. National Science Foundation (NSF)

• B. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

• C. The Planetary Society (TPS)

• D. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)