Civil Rights Movement Quizs 2025

18.Which of these describes Affirmative Action?

• Bans employer discrimination and public segregation

• Programs to encourage the hiring/adding of minorities to schools/companies

• Bans poll taxes

• Students can join any school activity regardless of gender

What was the direct result of the Selma protests in 1965?

• Executive order 10925

• Civil Rights Act 1964

• Voting Rights Act 1965

• Affirmative Action

which supreme court case ruled that separation is okay so long as it is equal? 

• Plessy V. Ferguson

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Marbury v. Madison

• Miranda v. Arizona

What role did Orval Fabus play after the Brown v. Board decision?

• He denied legislation that would create a new school system.

• He challenged the authority of the Federal government.

• He helped minimize race-related violence by establishing integrated advisory groups.

• He refused assistance from the federal government to improve minority graduation rates.

The 24th Amendment...

• gave women the right to vote.

• eliminated the use of literacy tests.

• outlawed poll taxes.

• allowed for the popular election of US Senators.

1954 Brown V. Board decision

1961 Freedom Rides begin

1964 24th amendment passed

What conclusion can be made based on this timeline?

• Reconstruction ends

• New Deal is created

• Civil Rights movement gains momentum

• The 19th amendment is passed

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed:  We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. - Washington, D.C., 1963

What conclusion can be drawn from Dr. Martin Luther King's I have a dream speech?

• He wanted to support segregation across the United States.

• He wanted the US to live up to its national identity by being more inclusive to minorities.

• He Supported armed response to racial inequality and discrimination is important.

• He supported Soutern Democrats and their desire to remove segregation.

In the 1954 trial of Brown v Board of Education, the US Supreme Court ruled that

• private schools should be controlled by the federal government

• issues of racial segregation should be decided by the states.

• racially segregated public schools are inherently unequal

• the "separate but equal" doctrine should be contnued

"_________________ : to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin.” The order creates the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, which has the authority to impose penalties for violations of the order.

Executive Order 10925 - John F. Kennedy

What answer describes the order given by President John F. Kennedy?

• Affirmative Action

• Civil Rights

• Desegregation of the military

• The Great Society programs

-Desegregated Schools

-Created a Classification for Mexicans

• Brown v. Board of Education

  Hernandez v. Texas

• Sweat V. Painter

  Plessy v. Furgeson

• Brown v. Board of Education

  Plessy v. Furgeson

• Hernandez v. Texas

  Tinker v. Des Moines