Ch 13: The Civil Rights Movement Review

Who led the Black Power Movement and argued African Americans should work for social and political independence?

• Malcolm X

• MLK JR

• Shirley Chisholm

• Rosa Parks

What prevented the Little Rock Nine from integrating Central High School?

• Congress banned forced desegregation of schools

• President Eisenhower ordered the students to wait till things calmed down.

• White students organized a sit-in protest and prevented class meetings

• Arkansas governor Orval Faubus used National Guard troops to block the entrance of the school

What was repeatedly disrupted by white mobs?

• Freedom Rides

• Untied Farm Workers

NAACP lawyer that argued for Linda Brown in the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Case

• Thurgood Marshall

• Martin Luther King, Jr

• Stokely Carmichael

• Malcolm X

Where did Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his famous "I have a Dream" speech?

• at Voting Rights March, Selma, Alabama

• at the March on Washington in front of the Lincoln Memorial

• from a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama

What legislation gave the Federal Government new powers to protect African Americans' voting rights?

• Civil Rights Act of 1965

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

True or False: President Kennedy was not a supporter of the Civil Rights Movement and took steps to break it apart.

• True

• False

Who founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?

• Thurgood Marshall

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King Jr

• Jo Ann Robinson

Who was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger?

• Rosa Parks

• Shirley Chisholm

• Coretta Scott King

"Man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life" - JFK

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