Civil Rights Movement Review

Racial segregation laws that mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the South.

• Jim Crow laws
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Civil Rights Act of 1964

What was the Supreme Court case that established the “separate but equal” rule?

• Miranda v. Arizona
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Roe v. Wade
• Brown v. Board of Education

Who passed executive orders 9980 & 9981 that ended segregation in the Civil Service and the Armed Forces?

• Harry S. Truman
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• John F. Kennedy
• Franklin D. Roosevelt

Organization co-founded by W.E.B Dubois, whose mission is to advance justice for African American people.

• Greenpeace
• ACLU
• NAACP
• UNICEF

Who was the attorney recruited by the NAACP to challenge segregation in schools?

• Rosa Parks
• Thurgood Marshall
• Malcolm X
• Martin Luther King Jr.

What was the Supreme Court case that ruled that segregation in schools was unconstitutional?

• Smith v. Jones
• Black v. White
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Green v. Red

Initiated the Montgomery Bus Boycott by getting arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man?

• Harriet Tubman
• Susan B. Anthony
• Amelia Earhart
• Rosa Parks

Who was the Governor of Arkansas that attempted to prevent desegregation of schools in his state?

• Bill Clinton
• Mike Huckabee
• Asa Hutchinson
• Orval Faubus

The group of African American students who began to attend Little Rock, Arkansas’ Central High School and endured threats of violence after the local school board voted to begin desegregating the district’s schools.

• Little Rock Eleven
• Little Rock Nine
• Little Rock Eight
• Little Rock Ten

Event in which protesters challenged the South’s non-enforcement of the Supreme Court ruling against segregation on busses by riding unsegregated interstate buses through the segregated South?

• Liberty March
• Equality Walk
• Freedom Rides
• Justice Parade