Civil Rights

Where was Thurgood Marshall born?

• Milwaukee, Wisconsin

• Baltimore, Maryland

• Memphis, Tennessee

In what year did Brown v. Board of Education Topeka order the desegregation of public schools?

• 1945

• 1950

• 1968

• 1954

1) Where was Rosa Parks born?

• Maryland

• Alabama

• Georgia

• Massachusetts

• Virginia

True or False - MLK believed that violence was the only way to bring equality in the United States.

• True

• False

When MLK and SCLC meet with the two leaders of SNCC in Selma, MLK outlines the THREE main points to their tactics. Check all three points

• Negotiate

• Humiliate

• Demonstrate

• Resist

What group of Morehouse College students organized sit-ins to protest the segregation of Atlanta’s diners?

• Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
• NAACP
• SCLC

What is a Sit-In.

• A patato

• A protest

• Martin Luther King Jr. son

• An old women

Segregation in the South was mainly based on 

• hair color
• religion
• race (color of the skin)
• economic status

What were the defining characteristics of Civil Rights?

• Increased participation of minorities in the political process, Protests, Boycotts, Marches, Desegregation, Integration, Struggle for equality, due process strengthened.

• Communism, containment, Arms Race/Space Race, Red Scare, McCarthyism

• OPEC oil problems, conflict in the Middle East, Reaganomics, large military, Cold War ends, NAFTA

• Economic instability, Unemployment, Breadlines, Poverty

In what state did the Montgomery Bus Boycott take place?

• Georgia

• Alabama

• Mississippi

• South Carolina

• Virginia