Civil Rights Movement Quiz

Who helped argue the Brown v. Board of Education case that required desegregation of schools?

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Huey Newton

What action did Rosa Parks take that fought segregation?

• Bus sit-in

• Armed resistance

• March on Washington

• Voting Rights Act advocacy

Which civil rights group used armed resistance to protest?

• Little Rock Nine

• Black Panthers

• Freedom Riders

• NAACP

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 achieve?

• Ended segregation in schools

• Allowed women to vote

• Ended segregation and required equal treatment in the workplace

• Established the Peace Corps

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

• Ended poll taxes and literacy tests

• Allowed 18-year-olds to vote

• Established a national holiday for voting

• Women were allowed to vote

What court case made segregation of schools illegal in the 1950s?

• Guzman V. School

• Brown V. Board of Education

• Miranda V. Arizona

• Plessy V. Ferguson

Which of the following was used in the South to practice segregation?

• Equality

• Jim Crow laws

• Title IX

• No laws were needed

What term is used to describe when people are separated because of differences like race or religion?

• segregation

• convergent

• divergent

• destructive

Who was the Arkansas governor that sent the National Guard to keep nine African Americans students out of school?

• Orval Faubus

• George Wallace

• Lester Maddox

• Bull Connor

Which of the following Civil Rights leaders believed in the use of Civil Disobedience?

• Huey P. Newton

• Thurgood Marshall

• Martin Luther King

• Malcolm X