Civil Rights

Name the civil rights leader who was a minister and believed in peaceful protest.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Booker T. Washington

• Malcolm X

• Rosa Parks

The Voting Rights Act caused (more or less) African Americans to vote in the South?

• more

• less

How did television help the civil rights movement?

• It brought entertainment to those who were being punished.

• It distracted those who were part of the civil rights.

• It gave African Americans performance opportunities.

• Average Americans were able to see the violence and protests.

What was the cause of Jim Crow laws being created?

• Black Codes

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

Name the civil rights leader arrested for protesting bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Sojourner Truth

• Rosa Parks

• Malcolm X

The Civil Rights Act declared that ...

• discrimination could not be based on someone's effort

• discrimination could not be based on race, color, or origin

• discrimination based on ability to perform a job was illegal

• discrimination could not be based on gender

Which president is responsible for desegregating the armed forces?

• Roosevelt

• Truman

• Kennedy

• Johnson

Name the civil rights leader who was Islamic and believed white Americans would never support equal rights.

• Malcolm X

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Rosa Parks

• Booker T. Washington

College students used _____ to protest against segregation in diners and at lunch counters.

• sit-ins

• freedom rides

• speeches

• death threats

Separate but equal and segregation in public schools was made illegal because of ...

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Jim Crow Laws

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education