Civil Rights

Brown vs. Board of Education was a famous case heard by the United States Supreme Court in 1954. The court ruled that it is illegal to:

• Allow children to work long hours in factories
• Segregate schools based on people’s skin color
• Pay black people less than white people for similar work
• Return an escaped slave to his/her master  

 An African American women who was asked to give up her seat on the bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama was

• Harriet B. Stowe
• Rosa Parks
• Michelle Obama
• Coretta King

 Martin Luther King Jr gave the famous “I Have A Dream” speech at what event?

• Freedom Rides
• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• March on Washington
• March from  Selma to Montgomery

How was the Montgomery Bus Boycott effective?

• It gave free transportation to African Americans
• It segregated buses in America
•  It made Rosa Parks lots of money
• It helped de-segregate buses in America

What previous Supreme Court decision did Brown v. Board overturn?

• Worcester v. Georgia
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Roe v. Wade
• Marbury v. Madison

Law that eliminated poll taxes and literacy tests in elections

• Civil Rights Act
• Voting Rights Act
• 15th Amendment
• 19th Amendment

What strategy did MLK NOT use when fighting for equal rights?

• Sit-ins
• Marches
• Protests
• Violent Riots

What Supreme Court case ended segregation in schools?

• Korematsu v US
• Brown v Ferguson
• Brown v Board of Ed
• Plessy v Ferguson

Laws enacted by Southern state and local governments to separate white and black people in public and private facilities.

• Racist

• Prejudice

• Discrimination

• Jim Crow

Refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus.

• Mary Washington

• Jackie Kennedy

• Cesar Chavez

• Rosa Parks