Civil Rights

The act of setting someone or something apart

• Disenfranchisement

• Segregation

• Intergration

• Vigilante

State and local laws that enforced segregation in the American South

• Jim Crow

• Jimmy Johns

• Apartheid

• Integration

Which civil rights leader converted to Islam and preached self-defense (pro-2nd amendment)?

• Malcolm X

• Ronald Reagan

• MLK

• Rosa Parks

What was the impact of the march on Washington?

• Passage of the Civil Rights Act

• Widespread violence in DC

• Malcolm X gives famous speech

• It never happened

Which Supreme Court Case supported segregation and established "separate but equal"

• Brown V. Board of Education

• Roe V. Wade

• Carlson V. Dickson

• Plessy V. Ferguson

Which Supreme Court Case overturned the "separate but equal" ruling and began to end segregation in schools?

• Brown V. Board of Education

• Smith V. Smith

• Roe V. Wade

• Plessy V. Ferguson

Who refused to switch seats and began the bus boycotts?

• Rosa Parks

• MLK

• Malcolm X

• Bob Evans

1. On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of what Washington, D.C. location?

• The White House

• The Lincoln Memorial

• Selma, AL

• Memphis, TN

Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees due process and equal protection rights to all citizens?

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

• 17th

Who took steps to petition the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to investigate charges that the United States was violating not just the civil rights, but also the human rights, of African Americans? 

• Malcolm X

• MLK

• Robert Higgins

• Mohammad Ali