Civil Rights Quiz

Thurgood Marshall became _______.

• a president of the United States.
• a principal in a school who fought racism.
• the first African American on the Supreme Court.
• one of the authors of the constitution.

Which Civil Rights organization was created to promote voter registration throughout the South?

• SNCC ( Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee)

• SCLC ( Southern Christian Leadership Conference)

• AM ( Albany Movement)

• NAACP ( National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

What court case made segregation of schools illegal in the 1950s?

• Guzman V. School

• Brown V. Board of Education

• Miranda V. Arizona

• Plessy V. Ferguson

Which leader of the civil rights movement used non-violent civil disobedience to oppose segregation in the south?

• Dolores Huerta

• Malcom X

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Ceaser Chavez

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

What acts of protest during the Civil Rights Movement encouraged the government to expand political and economic opportunities for minority citizens?

• March on Washington, Freedom Rides, Greensboro Sit-In, Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Black Panthers

• Mass Support Demonstrations

• Little Rock Nine

What event challenged the federal government to enforce the Supreme Court rulings against discrimination in interstate transportation?

• Sit-in

• Boycotts

• Freedom Rides

• March on Washington

What protest would Martin Luther King have opposed?

• Sit-In
• Bus Boycott
• March on Washington
• Race Riots

Thurgood Marshall was famous for being the first African-American Supreme Court Justice and....

• Assassinating JFK
• Organizing the March on Washington
• Winning the Brown v. the Board of Education case
• Giving African-Americans the right to vote

The March on Washington is most famous for...

• causing race riots in Washington, D.C.
• 200,000 people worked together to get the right to vote
• the KKK became an illegal organization
• MLK gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech