Civil Rights #28

What protest would Martin Luther King have opposed?

• Sit-In

• Bus Boycott

• March on Washington

• Race Riots

What was the result of the Brown v. Board of Education case?

• Segregation in public schools became illegal

• African-Americans began playing profession sports

• Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus

• MLK led a March on Washington

Thurgood Marshall was famous for being the first African-American Supreme Court Justice and....

• Assassinating JFK

• Organizing the March on Washington

• Winning the Brown v. the Board of Education case

• Giving African-Americans the right to vote

What was the purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

• It made Jim Crow Laws illegal

• It allowed African-Americans to run for political office

• It ended segregation in school

• It made poll taxes illegal

What was the purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

• It gave African-American women the right to vote

• It made literacy tests to vote illegal

• It made Jim Crow Laws illegal

• It allowed all African-Americans to vote

The March on Washington is most famous for...

• causing race riots in Washington, D.C.

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

• the KKK became an illegal organization

• MLK gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech

Which of the following best describes the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• Segregation on buses became illegal after a couple of days of boycotting

• Segregation on buses became illegal after months of boycotting

• African-Americans blocked the streets preventing buses from operating

• Martin Luther King was arrested for not giving up his seat

What is the purpose of the 24th Amendment?

• It ended slavery

• It ended segregation based on race

• It made poll taxes illegal

• It made it legal for Thurgood Marshall to be selected for the Supreme Court

What organization did W.E.B. Du Bois found?

• The Back to Africa Movement

• Tuskegee Institute

• NAACP

• Access for all movement

This amendment granted African American men the right to vote (1870) (USH.9A)

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 5th