Civil Rights Movement in Texas Review

Which of these is the best summary for the Civil Rights movement?

• an effort to end racial discrimination and segregation
• business leaders creating more jobs to improve the economy
• women protesting for their right to vote [known as suffrage]
• police and fire fighters recruiting civilians to help them

What era in history is represented in the article?

• Progressivism

• WWll

• Cold War

• Civil Rights

The purpose of the NAACP was to-

• Desegregate the US Army

• Work to end segregation and discrimination in housing

• Give Mexican-Americans the right to an education and health care

The Civil Rights Act was signed to end -

• Voting booths to be segregated

• Discrimination and desegregation of unions and schools

• Mexican-American segregation

• Women from entering combat roles in the US military

President of the United States in 1963 who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and launched the Great Society program?

• John F. Kennedy

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Barrack Obama

A case in which the Court held that the 14th Amendment prohibited the University of Texas from rejecting applicants soley on the basis of race -

• Brown V. Board of Education

• Plessy V. Ferguson

• Sweatt V. Painter

• Hernandez V. Texas

The first time education in Texas universities and other universities integrated their campuses was

• Sweatt v. Painter

• Brown v. Board

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Loving v. Virginia

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed by

• John F. Kennedy (JFK)

• Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ)

• Richard M. Nixon

Lulu Belle Madison White

• founder of the American GI Forum

• founder of CORE, Congress of Racial Equality

• president of the Houston chapter of the NAACP and grew it to the largest chapter in the South

• first Mexican American to be elected as the mayor of a major American city (El Paso) and the first Mexican American to be appointed as a US Ambassador