Civil Rights Review

The Civil rights movements goal was

• integration of schools and businesses

• Being able to sit anywhere on the bus

• Equality and democracy

Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal

• allow children to work.
• to pay black people less than white people.
• to return a slave.
• to segregate schools.

Who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus?

• Charlayne Hunter
• Harriet Tubman
• Rosa Parks
• Rebecca L. Felton

An organization formed in 1960 to coordinate sit-ins and other protests and to give young blacks a larger role in the civil rights movement.

• affirmative action
• de facto segregation
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 
• National Organization for Women 

Literacy tests & poll taxes were used in the South to keep African Americans from doing what?

• voting
• serving in the military
• moving north
• getting an education

What state laws created separate public facilities for African Americans in the South?

• Jim Crow Laws
• affirmative action
• Civil Rights Acts
• Force Acts

The main goal of the freedom riders was to 

• pressure the federal government to enforce the law banning segregation on interstate buses
• inspire students to protest in Birmingham against Jim Crow
• encourage Congress to pass Kennedy's civil rights agenda
• desegregate urban bus systems in the south

Match the following

• Ended segregation in public schools

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• abolished slavery

• 15th Amendment

• Allowed "separate but equal" facilities.

• 13th Amendment

• all persons born or naturalized in U.S. were entitled equal rights

• 14th Amendment

• gave people right to vote regardless of race

• Brown v. Board of Education

What movement during the 1920s helped inspire the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s?

• Great Migration

• Prohibition

• NAACP

• Harlem Renaissance

What group during the Civil Rights Movement allowed members to use all necessary means to defend and provide for their community?

• Southern Peace Corps

• NAACP

• SNCC

• Black Panthers