Civil Rights Movement Quiz

Civil rights group that used armed force to protest and protect themselves

• Rosa Parks

• Thurgood Marshall

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Governor Orval Faubus

• Black Panthers

Refused to move to the back of the bus and was arrested

• Governor Orval Faubus

• Thurgood Marshall

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Black Panthers

• Rosa Parks

Argued that there is no equality in segregated schools

• Black Panthers

• Rosa Parks

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Thurgood Marshall

• Governor Orval Faubus

Supreme Court ruled to desegregate schools

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Thurgood Marshall

• Black Panthers

• Rosa Parks

• Brown v. Board of Education

Civil rights rally to peacefully protest discrimination of minorities

• Rosa Parks

• March on Washington

• Black Panthers

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Thurgood Marshall

Ordered the National Guard to prevent African American students from entering Little Rock High School

• Thurgood Marshall

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Black Panthers

• Rosa Parks

• Governor Orval Faubus

U.S. President that pushed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 through Congress

• Thurgood Marshall

• Black Panthers

• Governor Orval Faubus

• Rosa Parks

• Lyndon B. Johnson

Analyze the impact of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech on the Civil Rights Movement.

• It had little to no impact on the movement.

• It inspired many to join the movement and increased national support for civil rights.

• It led to immediate legislative changes.

• It caused a division within the movement.

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DOK Level 3: Strategic Thinking

What was the primary outcome of the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education?

• It upheld the "separate but equal" doctrine.

• It declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.

• It mandated the desegregation of all public facilities.

• It ruled that segregation in public transportation was illegal.

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DOK Level 1: Recall

Explain how the Voting Rights Act of 1965 addressed the issues faced by African American voters.

• It provided federal oversight of voter registration in areas where less than 50% of the non-white population had not registered to vote.

• It allowed only African Americans to vote in federal elections.

• It eliminated all forms of voter registration.

• It required all voters to pass a literacy test.

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DOK Level 2: Skill/Concept