Civil Rights Movement review

In 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. led the famous ________ on Washington.

Why was the integration in the military important in the U.S.? SS5H6a

• It oppressed people and was ruled unconstitutional.

• It was a law ordered by the Supreme Court.

• The military in other countries had integration.

• It encouraged integration to slowly spread to other areas of life

4. The issue of ________ was addressed when Oliver Brown filed a lawsuit and it went before the Supreme Court. SS5H6b

• segregation

• affiliation

• cooperation

Thurgood Marshall was the first ________ . SS5H6b

• lawyer to win a case

• African American Supreme Court Justice

• African American lawyer of the year

What did John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson have in common? SS5H6b

• They wanted to ensure equal rights for all African Americans.

• They were from Texas

• They signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964

• They were running for president in 1963

. How did the U.S. change after the Civil Rights Movement? SS5H6b

• Jim Crow laws were made illegal

• Segregation was made illegal.

• "Separate but equal" was done away with

• All of the above

How does this illustration demonstrate the "separate but equal" idea? SS5H6a

• It shows that facilities were separate and equal

• It shows that those facilities were separate but NOT equal

• . It shows that separate facilities are provided and equal in the fact they both are drinking fountains

• It shows that the fountains are separate but equal in height

Lyndon B. Johnson worked towards a Great Society where people would be given higher wages and fewer hours of work. SS5H6b

• True

• False

Thurgood Marshall fought against social injustices as a lawyer. He worked with the ________.

• Supreme Court

• NAACP

President John F. Kennedy was so concerned with the aftermath of the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, that he proposed the Civil Rights Act in June of 1963.

• True

• False