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What campaign did African Americans support during World War II to fight against segregation and discrimination?

• Freedom Now Movement

• Double V Campaign

• Civil Rights Drive

• Operation Equality

Which Supreme Court case in 1946 overturned a conviction based on the interstate commerce clause?

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Morgan v. the Commonwealth of Virginia

• Shelley v. Kraemer

• Sweatt v. Painter

In what year did Jackie Robinson break the color barrier in Major League Baseball?

• 1945

• 1947

• 1950

• 1953

Which case did Thurgood Marshall argue that challenged the 'separate but equal' doctrine in public schools?

• Shelley v. Kraemer

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Sweatt v. Painter

• Brown v. Board of Education

What was the primary goal of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• To integrate bus seating

• To end bus services

• To hire African American bus drivers

• To lower bus fares

Who was the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court?

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Barack Obama

• Thurgood Marshall

• Clarence Thomas

What year did the U.S. Supreme Court order school systems to begin desegregation 'with all deliberate speed'?

• 1954

• 1955

• 1956

• 1957

Who was the African American woman arrested for refusing to give up her seat on an interstate bus in Virginia?

• Rosa Parks

• Sojourner Truth

• Irene Morgan

• Harriet Tubman

Which President was responsible for sending federal troops to protect the Little Rock Nine?

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• John F. Kennedy

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Harry S. Truman

What was the outcome of the 1955–1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• The city's buses were desegregated

• The bus company went bankrupt

• African Americans stopped using buses

• The buses remained segregated