Civil Rights Movement

Although nine Black students attended Little Rock Central High, they were not met with resistance from mobs of whites.

• True

• False

The NAACP’s strategy when arguing against segregated schools was to show in court that separate schools

• did not provide equal educational opportunities for black students

• did not provide transportation for black students

• were basically unfair to both black and white students.

• were not equally funded, and so black schools were run-down

What was the ruling in the case of Brown v. Board of Education?

• African Americans would not be able to attend the same schools

  as whites.

• Organizations to promote African American rights were illegal.

• Separate facilities were constitutional as long as they were

  equal in quality.

• Segregation in schools and other public facilities was illegal.

Unconstitutional is defined as

• relating to an established set of principles governing a state

• not consistent with the constitution and illegal

• the highest judicial court in a country or state

• a dispute between two parties that is decided in a court of law

A sit-in was a

• protest against discriminatory laws led by Rosa Parks

• demonstration in which protesters sat down and refused to leave

• voter registration drive coordinated by SNCC leader Bob Moses

• meeting held by civil rights activists to plan their next course of action

The Equal Pay Act of 1963 required many employers to pay

• disabled Americans equal salaries for the same work.

• men, women, and Chicanos equal salaries for the same work.

• men, women, and African Americans equal salaries for the same

  work.

• men and women equal salaries for the same work.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed discrimination in the workplace.

• True

• False

Which Act ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin?

• Voting Rights of Act of 1965

• Voting Rights of Act of 1975

• Civil Rights Act of 1875

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

Linda Brown’s father sued the Board of Education to

• allow Linda to attend a white school that was closer to her home.

• protest the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which

  promoted discrimination.

• argue that the segregated black school Linda was forced to attend was much less well-funded than a nearby white school.

• show that ending discrimination in schools was the only way to end discrimination in all areas of American society.

Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech

• at the voting rights march in Selma.

• in defense of the Freedom Riders

• while he was in a Birmingham jail.

• at the March on Washington