Civil Rights 2023

What were laws that were passed in the South that limited the freedoms of African Americans and legalized discrimination called?

• Bad Laws

• Discrimination Laws

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Rights Laws

What court case decided spearate but equal was constitutional?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

What Supreme Court case declared that separte but equal was unconstitutional?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

What is the name of the organization that was formed to support the advancement of African Americans?

• NATO

• NAACP

• United Nations

• WMMS

The Freedom Rides were bus trips by civil rights protesters in the South. What was the purpose of these trips?

• To change the separate but equal school policies.

• To force voting rights for all Americans.

• Free rides on busses.

• To challenge the illegal bus systems.

Martin Luther King, Jr. gave a speech known as I Have a Dream at a protest against segregation. What was this event called?

• Civil Rights Act

• Selma to Montgomery March

• March on Washington

• Boycotts

What law banned segregation in public places?

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

Americans were outraged when three civil rights workers were murdered during the campaign to register voters in the South. What was the name of this campaign?

• Freedom Rides

• Freedom Summer

• March on Washington

• Bloody Sunday

Which event sparked the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• Rosa Park's arrest

• Bloody Sunday

• Sit-Ins

• Freedom Summer

Americans were outraged when they learned about the events of Bloody Sunday. What was new about how they learned about what happened?

• Newspapers

• Radio

• Computers

• Television