CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Brown v. Board of Education is regarded (known) as which of the following?

• Supreme Court cases arguing the constitutionality of segregation.

• Coordinated group of lawsuits culminating in one case that argued the constitutionality of "separate but equal".

• Court case that held that segregation did not violate the Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment

• Case establishing principle of judicial review as the power of federal courts to declare legislative/executive acts unconstitutional

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

In what state did the Montgomery Bus Boycott take place?

• Georgia

• Alabama

• Mississippi

• South Carolina

• Virginia

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

Match the following

• gave people right to vote regardless of race

• Brown v. Board of Education

• all persons born or naturalized in U.S. were entitled equal rights

• 15th Amendment

• abolished slavery

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Allowed "separate but equal" facilities.

• 14th Amendment

• Ended segregation in public schools

• 13th Amendment

In order to help pass civil rights legislation Martin Luther King Jr. Helped organize a march in this city, where he gave his now famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

• Washington DC

• New York City

• Los Angeles

• Chicago

Plessy vs. Ferguson was a 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision to

• end civil rights

• establish Martin Luther king jr. day

• keep racial segregation under the "seperate but equal" doctrine