Civil Rights Assessment

1. ___________________ are the things that all citizens in a society are allowed to do.

• civil rights
• March on Washington
• Brown v. Board of Education
• de facto segregation
• Voting Rights Act of 1965

2. The 24th Amendment eliminated the ____________ as a method to stop African Americans from voting.

• poll tax
• March on Washington
• Brown v. Board of Education
• de facto segregation
• civil rights

3. One example of civil disobedience, which was used to combat businesses in the South refusing to serve African American guests, was the _______________.

• sit-in
• March on Washington
• Brown v. Board of Education
• de facto segregation
• civil rights

4. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech at a large civil rights gathering called the ________________________________.

• March on Washington
• Brown v. Board of Education
• de facto segregation
• civil rights
• Voting Rights Act of 1965

5. The _________________________________ stopped African-Americans from having to take literacy tests in order to register to vote.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• March on Washington
• Brown v. Board of Education
• de facto segregation
• civil rights

6. Civil Rights protests like the Greensboro sit-ins and Freedom Rides finally met with some success when the _______________________________________ was passed.

• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• March on Washington
• Brown v. Board of Education
• de facto segregation
• civil rights

7. The _______________ filed key cases, like Brown v. Board of Education, to help gain equal rights for African Americans by overturning discriminatory laws in the courts.

• NAACP
• March on Washington
• Brown v. Board of Education
• de facto segregation
• civil rights

8. While many focus on their confrontational approach to demanding African American rights, the ___________________________ also helped African Americans struggle with the poverty also associated with their urban environments.

• Black Panthers
• March on Washington
• Brown v. Board of Education
• de facto segregation
• civil rights

9. Brown v. Board of Education began the process of ending the practice of _____________________ in our nation's schools.

• segregation
• March on Washington
• Brown v. Board of Education
• de facto segregation
• civil rights

10. Although the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s made many legal gains for African Americans, the success of the movement was limited due to the continuing practice of ___________________.

• de facto segregation
• March on Washington
• Brown v. Board of Education
• civil rights
• Voting Rights Act of 1965