60s Civil Rights

This picture of Rosa Parks shows her arrest in 1955 Montgomery. Parks helped start a movement that

• protested voting discrimination in Alabama.

• resulted in the integration of lunch counters.

• attempted to integrate Robert E. Lee high school in that city.

• used economic boycott to try to affect political and social change.

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!"

 

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.

August 28, 1963

The speech above was given to

• help free the Negro slaves in the South.

• promote himself in a campaign for president.

• dedicate the newly constructed Lincoln Memorial.

• the need to address injustices still to be righted during the Civil Rights Movement.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 sought to end the series of laws in the south known as

• Habeas Corpus.

• Jim Crow laws.

• the Black Codes.

• Affirmative Action.

The purpose of the 1964 Freedom Summer Project promoted by SNCC in Mississippi was

• to protest the escalation of the Vietnam War.

• to help and encourage blacks to become registered voters.

• to persuade the all state legislatures to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.

• to force the University of Mississippi to allow African-Americans to attend classes.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was the first president of this organization that used African-American churches to coordinate the civil rights movement.

• Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)   

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

The MOST LIKELY result of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was

• the abolition of poll taxes

• literacy tests were instituted as a requirement to vote.

• the Federal government would be allowed to oversee elections.

• eighteen year old African Americans were given the right to vote.

In the Jim Crow era, literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses were passed by the southern states in order to

• deny suffrage to women.

• end the Reconstruction Era.

• deny suffrage to African Americans.

• help pay for the growing New Deal programs.

Which statement BEST describes the relationship between Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education?

• Both cases addressed the need for due process of law.

• Both cases dealt with the rights of minors in schools.

• The Brown decision overturned the Plessy decision.

• The Brown case was a precedent for the Plessy case.

This famous law prohibits discrimination by employers on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, and is part of the legacy of President Lyndon Johnson's presidency.

• Title IX

• Twenty-fourth Amendment

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

According to this chart, what BEST accounts for the great increase in registered voters between 1964 and 1966?

• All voters in Mississippi were finally allowed to vote by mail or by absentee ballot.

• Congressional legislation was passed that made registering to vote safer for African Americans.

• The Presidential candidates in 1966 offered more hope and opportunity to African American voters. 

• Technological advancements made the registering process quicker and easier throughout the United States.