Civil Rights Movement

An American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement and spokesman for the Nation of Islam.

• George W. Carver

• Huey P. Newton

• Malcolm X

The March on ______ was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial

• Alabama

• Washington

• Mississippi

The sit-ins started on 1 February 1960, when four black students from A & T College sat down at a Woolworth lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, _____

• North Dakota

• Florida

• North Carolina

• South Carolina

______ Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals.

• American

• Freedom

• Dreamer

Who was the first black supreme court justice?

• Clarence Thomas

• Thurgood Marshall

• Martin Luther King Jr.

Which city was Martin Luther King Jr.assassinated in?

• Selma

• Memphis

• Los Angeles

• Miami

Which President Signed the Civil Rights Act?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Lyndon Johnson

• Ronald Regan

The _____ Prize 1964 was awarded to Martin Luther King Jr. for his non-violent struggle for civil rights for the African-American population.

• John F. Kennedy

• Nobel Peace

• John Dewey

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, (1954), was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that laws establishing racial ______ in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the schools are otherwise equal in quality.

• Freedom

• Segregation

• Books

______ was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus Boycott.

• Martha Brown

• Stacey Abrams

• Rosa Parks

• Dorothy Height