Civil Rights Movement Review (4.4)

African Americans were denied equal protection of the law by __________.

• Brown v. Board of Education
• Jim Crow laws
• affirmative action
• the fourteenth amendment

In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court found that segregated schools __________.

• could be made equal
• violated equal protection
• violated due process
• were separate but equal

This is the term for unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of race, gender, age, religion, or ethnicity.

• discrimination
• freedom
• equality
• hatred

______ was a six-year-old African American child who became the first to desegregate an all-white elementary school in Louisiana in 1960.

• Rosa Parks
• Ruby Bridges
• Daisy Bates

Martin Luther King first emerged as a nationally-known leader of the Civil Rights Movement when he

• challenged the authority of the mayor in Little Rock, Arkansas
• led the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama
• led the protest march in Birmingham, Alabama
• gave his "I have a Dream Speech" in Washington D.C.

Who was responsible for sparking the Montgomery bus boycott?

• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Rosa Parks
• Martin Luther King
• Thurgood Marshall

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended discrimination in hiring workers.

• True
• False

The number of African American voters in the South increased after __________.

• literacy requirements were banned
• Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed
• the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

The Chicano Movement was formed to fight segregation against __________.

• Native Americans
• women
• Mexican Americans
• people with disabilities

Affirmative action critics say that it __________.

• gives good students a chance to go to college
• is reverse discrimination
• may encourage segregation
• blocks women from getting good jobs