Civil Rights Movement Test

Brown v. Board of Education of 1954 overturned which Supreme Court case of 1896?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Marbury v. Madison

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Mapp v. Ohio

Who is famous for not giving up their seat on the bus to a white passenger?

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Tubman

• Ida B. Wells

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

What leader of the boycott later became the leader of the Civil Rights Movement?

• Booker T. Washington

• Frederick Douglass

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Rosa Parks

Who was the president at the time that the Little Rock 9 led the integration in Little Rock high schools?

• Bill Clinton

• George W. Bush

• Richard Nixon

• Dwight Eisenhower

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed by

• John F. Kennedy (JFK)

• Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ)

• Richard M. Nixon

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

• Segregation in public schools became illegal
• African-Americans began playing profession sports
• Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus
• MLK led a March on Washington

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

• It made Jim Crow Laws illegal
• It allowed African-Americans to run for political office
• It ended segregation in school
• 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" speech

True or False? The Montgomery Bus Boycott was effective because most people who rode the bus were black, and the bus company lost too much money once people boycotted.

• True

• False