Civil Rights Movement

What was the Civil Rights Movement

• Civil lawyers voted to move the courts to cities

• African Americans fought against racial discrimination and segregation

• Whites fought to preserve segregation

• Hispanics voters fought for the right to vote

Which United States president called in federal troops to support African American students at Little Rock Central High School?

• John F. Kennedy
• Dwight Eisenhower 
• Lyndon Johnson
• Harry S. Truman  

In 1964, the 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution was added, outlawing poll taxes. How did poll taxes discriminate against African Americans?

• They kept many African Americans from voting.
• They prevented African Americans from attending certain schools.
• They kept many African Americans from finding employment.
• They segregated African Americans on buses and in restaurants.

Identify the legislation that aimed to eliminate literacy tests and other barriers to voting for African Americans.

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Fair Housing Act of 1968

• Social Security Act

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On February 1, 1960, four black college students in Greensboro, N.C. tried to integrate the lunch counter at F.W. Woolworth; this type of protest spread across the south and became very effective    

• sit-in campaign
• Riots in Birmingham

How was the Montgomery Bus Boycott effective?

• It gave free transportation to African Americans
• It segregated buses in America
•  It made Rosa Parks lots of money
• It helped de-segregate buses in America

The main goal of the freedom riders was to 

• pressure the federal government to enforce the law banning segregation on interstate buses
• inspire students to protest in Birmingham against Jim Crow
• encourage Congress to pass Kennedy's civil rights agenda
• desegregate urban bus systems in the south

This law banned all literacy tests that kept many African Americans from voting. 

• Civil Rights Act
• Voting Rights Act
• Civil Rights Movement
• 24th Amendment

The March on Washington was most famous because . . .

• it caused race riots in the nation's Capital
• 200,000 people worked together to help blacks get the right to vote
• the KKK became an illegal organization because of the march
• Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I have a Dream: speech, which inspired hundreds of thousands to help the Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Act of 1964:

• The law banned the use of civil lawyers in a court room

• Law that banned Civil Rights protests in Washington

• A play performed on Broadway about Martin Luther King Jr.

• This law banned discrimination against any American because of race/color/religion