CLES5 - Civil Rights and Voting

True or False: Martin Luther King was in favor of race riots.

• True

• False

Segregation of public schools became illegal as a result of ....?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

Martin Luther King would agree with which type of protests?

• Sit-ins

• Boycotts

• Marches

• All of the above

Why was the Voting Rights Act of 1965 significant?

• It gave black women the right to vote

• It gave all blacks the right to vote

• It made literacy tests to vote illegal

• It made Jim Crow lawas ellegal.

Describe two ways Thurgood Marshall was involved in the Civil Rights movement.

• He assassinated John F. Kennedy

• He became the first African American US Supreme Court Justice

• He won the court case Brown v. Board of Education

• He organized the March on Washinton

This person was a strong civil rights supporter who was shot after a Presidential campaign event in 1968.

• John F. Kennedy

• Thurgood Marshall

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Robert Kennedy

True or False: John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson were popular with African Americans because they supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and helped to get the law passed.

• True

• False

True or False: The March on Washington led to race riots in Washington, DC.

• True

• False

Describe the results Montgomery Boycott

• Segregation of busses became illegal after many months of protesting

• Segregation of busess became illegal within a couple of days of Rosa Park's refusal to give up her seat

• Blacks blockaded the streets so the busses could not get down the street

• Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested for not giving up his bus seat to a white man.

The event that the March on Washington is most known for is:

• Martin Luther King's famous "I Have A Dream" speech

• The assassination of John F. Kennedy

• 200,000 people worked together to get the blacks the right to vote

• The KKK became an illegal organization