Civil Rights Movement

This law made it illegal to prevent citizens from voting because of their race or ethnicity.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Supreme Court Ruling of 1955

• Civil Rights Act 1970

• Segregation Act of 1980

The major goal of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s was to:

• Establish a separate political state for African Americans

• Gain passage of equal rights amendment to the Constitution

• End segregation based on race

• Permit unlimited immigration to the United States

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

What court case made segregation of schools illegal in the 1950s?

• Guzman V. School

• Brown V. Board of Education

• Miranda V. Arizona

• Plessy V. Ferguson

Which leader of the civil rights movement used non-violent civil disobedience to oppose segregation in the south?

• Dolores Huerta

• Malcom X

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Ceaser Chavez

During which event did Eisenhower send troops to Arkansas in order to desegregate a high school?

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Little Rock Nine

• Atomic Bombs

• Flying Tigers

What happened as a result of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the 24^th Amendment?

• Expanded the political and economic opportunities for minorities

• Decreased the political and economic opportunities for minorities

What event challenged the federal government to enforce the Supreme Court rulings against discrimination in interstate transportation?

• Sit-in

• Boycotts

• Freedom Rides

• March on Washington

To separate one group from another is ___________________.

• integration
• segregation
• Civil Rights Movement
  Jim Crow

This banned the use of literacy tests.

• Civil Rights Act
• Civil Rights Movement
• Voting Rights Act
• Jim Crow Law