Civil Rights Movement Quiz Review 1

Jim Crow laws were:

• laws that protected African American rights.

• local or state laws that helped spread discrimination in America.

• used to stop discrimination in America.

• laws that protected voting rights for all Americans.

The Civil Rights Movement MAINLY took place during:

• World War II.

• the 1930s and 1940s.

• the 1940s and 1950s.

• the 1950s and 1960s.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 did all the following EXCEPT:

• protect the voting rights of all citizens.

• ban literacy tests for voting.

• give the federal government power to oversee voter registration.

• established literacy tests and poll taxes for voting.

What banned segregation based on race in America?

• The Segregation Act of 1962

• The National Defense Education Act

• The Equal Protection Act

• The Civil Rights Act of 1964

What type of protests did Martin Luther King, Jr., insist on using against unjust laws?

• Violent protests

• Non-violent protests

• Riots

• Political Revolutions

Which case desegregated public schools in America?

• Orr v. the School Board of Canton

• Plessy v. Ferguson(1896)

• Jones v. Mississippi

• Brown v. the Board of Education(1954)

Which leader promoted nonviolent protests to fight racial injustice?

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Richard Nixon

• Malcolm X

• Martin Luther King Jr.

Which of the following court cases established "separate but equal"?

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Johnson v. Texas

• Loving v. Virginia

What banned segregation based on race in America?

• The Segregation Act of 1962

• The National Defense Education Act

• The Civil Rights Act of 1964

• The Equal Protections Act

The ​ (a)   was a group of African American students that ​ (b)   an all white high school in 1957 at Little Rock, Arkansas.

• Little Rock 9
• integrated
• Moton High School students