Civil Rights Movement and 1950s

What was the result of the Brown v. Board of Education case?

• desegregation in public schools became illegal

• African-Americans began playing profession sports
• desegregation in public schools due to violation of 14th amendment

• desegregation in higher education/universities

What was the purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

• It made Jim Crow Laws legal

• It outlawed segregation and discrimination in public places

• It ended segregation in private schools and businesses

• It made poll taxes illegal

What was the purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

• It gave African-American women the right to vote
• It made literacy tests to vote illegal
• It made Jim Crow Laws illegal
• It allowed all African-Americans to vote

The March on Washington is most famous for...

• causing race riots in Washington, D.C.
• 200,000 people worked together to get the right to vote
• the KKK became an illegal organization
• MLK gave his famous "I Have a Dream" or "Normalcy Never Again" speech

Which of the following best describes the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• Segregation on buses became illegal nationwide after a couple of days of boycotting

• Segregation on buses became illegal after nearly a year of boycotting

• African-Americans blocked the streets preventing buses from operating
• Martin Luther King was arrested for not giving up his seat

What is the purpose of the 24th Amendment?

• It ended slavery
• It ended segregation based on race
• It made poll taxes illegal
• It made it legal for Thurgood Marshall to be selected for the Supreme Court

Thurgood Marshall became _______.

• a president of the United States.
• a principal in a school who fought racism.
• the first African American on the Supreme Court.
• one of the authors of the constitution.

The Freedom Riders were a group of African Americans and Whites who rode buses to..?

• To challenge voting laws in the deep south (like poll taxes and literacy test)

• to challenge racial segregation throughout the deep south interstate travel and bus stations

• to promote sit ins at diners and drug stores

• to protest the Vietnam war

Which civil rights leader advocated separation  for African Americans and was opposed to integration ?

• Martin Luther King
• Medgar Evers
• Malcolm X
• John Lewis

 An African American women who was asked to give up her seat on the bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama was

• Harriet B. Stowe
• Rosa Parks
• Michelle Obama
• Coretta King