Civil Rights Quiz

True or false: Schools are still segregated today

• True

• False

Thurgood Marshall's parents hoped that he would become a.......?

• Doctor

• Teacher

• Dentist

• Lawyer

Who is famous for starting the bus boycott?

• Linda Brown

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Rosa Parks

• Cesar Chavez

Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the Supreme Court ruled that it is illegal

• To allow children to work

• To segregate schools

• To allow kids to protest at schools

What ended the JIm Crow laws?

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Civil War

• Protests

• Segregation

Jim Crow Laws were created to separate whites and Blacks.

• True

• False

Brown v. the Board of Education case upheld Plessy v. Ferguson.

• True

• False

Which Amendment declares that no person can be deprived "of life, liberty, or property without due process of law”?

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 23rd Amendment

The 14th Amendment gave former slaves....

• citizenship in the U.S.

• citizenship for a specified time

• temporary rights

• rights in their state of birth

The Fourteenth Amendment was initially put into place to protect what group of people?

• Former slave owners

• Freed slaves

• Members of Congress

• Former presidents