African American Studies Civil Rights Organizations

During World War II, how did the NAACP help African Americans?

• They challenged individual segregation cases in court 
• They fought for equal opportunity for African Americans in housing and employment 
• They helped African Americans register to vote
• all of the above

Which United States president ended segregation in the Armed Forces in 1948?

• Harry S. Truman 
• Lyndon Johnson 
• Dwight Eisenhower 
• John F. Kennedy

Which United States president called in federal troops to support African American students at Little Rock Central High School?

• John F. Kennedy
• Dwight Eisenhower 
• Lyndon Johnson
• Harry S. Truman  

What legal action helped to end segregation in public schools?

• Brown v. Board of Education
• Hernandez v. Texas 
• Plessy v. Ferguson 
• The Civil Rights Act of 1964

Name the Supreme Court Judge who made this statement about education:“We conclude that in the field of public education, the doctrine of “separate but equal’ has no place.  Separate educational facilities are always unequal.”

• Orval Faubus
• Thurgood Marshall
• Earl Warren 
• Martin Luther King, Jr.

forcing people to use separate facilities according to race

• boycott 
• segregation
• civil disobedience
• integration 

The mixing of different racial groups

• boycott
• segregation
• integration 
• civil disobedience

The Montgomery Improvement Association was created in ___________ to support the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

• 1947
• 1955  
• 1965
• 1896

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was founded by ___________________

• African Americans to fight for Civil Rights
• White Americans to end integration laws
• the federal government to fight for Civil Rights 
• The state government to end integration laws

Montgomery is located in the state of Georgia

• True 
• False