1950's Civil Rights

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave what famous speech during the March on Washington in 1963? 

• Mountaintop

• Georgia Hills

• I Have a Dream

• Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Who broke the MLB color barrier?

• Satchel Paige

• Jackie Robinson

• Buck O'Neil

• Larry Doby

Who did President Eisenhower escort into Central High School?

• Little Rock Nine

• Jim Crow

• Rosa Parks

• Orval Faubus

Who inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott

How did MLK urge people to protest segregation in public transportation?

• Violence

• Civil Disobedience

• Boycotting

• Freedom Rides

Poll taxes were put in place in an effort to stop African Americans from doing what?

Which court case stated that Jim Crow laws were legal as long as they are separate but equal?

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Sweatt v Painter

• Brown v Board of Education

The main goal of the freedom riders was to 

• pressure the federal government to enforce the law banning segregation on interstate buses

• encourage Congress to pass Kennedy's civil rights agenda

• inspire students to protest in Birmingham against Jim Crow

• desegregate urban bus systems in the south

What organization created by W.E.B. Dubois sought immediate equality for minorities?

• SNCC

• NAACP

• WAC

• HUAC

The purpose of the Selma march was to campaign for

• job rights for African Americans.

• new desegregation laws.

• voting rights for women.

• voting rights for African Americans.