Civil Rights Test Review

Match the following person with the event they spearheaded...

• first African-American baseball player to cross the "color line" and join MLB

• Freedom Riders

• civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States

• Little Rock Nine

• Integration in Little Rock H.S.

• Rosa Parks

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Jackie Robinson

Match the following

• gave people right to vote regardless of race

• 14th Amendment

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

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Allowed "separate but equal" facilities.

• Brown v. Board of Education

• abolished slavery

• 13th Amendment

• Ended segregation in public schools

• 15th Amendment

Rosa Parks initiated the _____________.

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Little Rock Nine event

• Woolworth Sit-In

• Freedom Rides

Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party are associated with ________.

• civil disobedience

• militancy ("by any means necessary")

• cooperation

• political lobbying

The important Civil Rights Act of 1964 calls for __________.

• the end of discrimination in public areas

• the integration of religious and state facilities

• Jim Crows to continue

• None of the above

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed by

• John F. Kennedy (JFK)

• Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ)

Eliminated Poll Taxes in Federal Elections.

• 24th Amendment
• Jim Crow Laws
• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

Eliminated literacy tests and poll taxes in all elections.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• 24th Amendment

Effort to desegregate interstate transportation by integrated passengers riding buses from the north to the south.

• Sit-Ins
• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Freedom Rides
• Freedom Writers

Nonviolent protest, where protesters occupied space in order to protest segregation.

• Sit-In
• Freedom Rides
• Selma March