Civil Rights quiz

This court case created the phrase "separate but equal."

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Civil Rights Act

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Parks v. Recreation

This person led the Civil Rights movement with peaceful protests.

• Rosa Parks

• Malcolm X

• Abraham Lincoln

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

This made it illegal to discriminate in the workplace.

• Civil Rights Act

• Voting Act

• Equal Rights Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

This person believed in using any means necessary, including violence, to get equal rights.

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Darth Vader

• Malcolm X

Name the civil rights leader arrested for protesting bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Sojourner Truth

• Rosa Parks

• Malcolm X

What did the civil rights movement accomplish?

• It immediately improved rights for women.

• It improved rights and opportunities for African Americans.

• It improved the rights for Japanese Americans.

• It gave all African American men jobs.

Separate but equal and segregation in public schools was made illegal because of ...

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Jim Crow Laws

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

How did Martin Luther King, Jr. accomplish his goals?

• civil disobedience and nonviolence

• civil disobedience and violence

• aggressive and violent protests

• segregation and violent actions

In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court decided that

• school segregation was legal in the South

• school segregation was legal based on Plessy v. Ferguson

• school segregation was unequal and unconstitutional

• school segregation was legal in North

Who was the lead lawyer in the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case?

• Spotswood Robinson

• Thurgood Marshall

• Oliver Hill

• Charles Houston