Civil Rights Preassessment

Which Civil Rights leader also became the first African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court?

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Rosa Parks

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In his "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail", Dr. King said, "I would agree with Saint Augustine that 'an unjust law is no law at all.'"

This statement was used by Dr. King to show support for-

• Social Darwinism

• Separation of church and state

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Disobedience

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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

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

• Great Migration

• Prohibition

• NAACP

• Harlem Renaissance

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Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.

• Sweatt v. Painter
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Mendez v. Kirby ISD

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Separation of two or more races based on skin color

• segregation

• racism

• oppression

• fascism

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This amendment abolished (ended) slavery

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

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Which court case declared that segregation was constitutional?

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Schenck v. United States

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Name the civil rights leader who was Islamic and believed white Americans would never support equal rights.

• Malcolm X

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Rosa Parks

• Booker T. Washington

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How did television help the civil rights movement?

• It brought entertainment to those who were being punished.

• It distracted those who were part of the civil rights.

• It gave African Americans performance opportunities.

• Average Americans were able to see the violence and protests.

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