Civil Rights

Who gave his famous "I Have a Dream" Speech at the March on Washington?

• Malcolm X
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Medgar Evars
• Robert F. Kennedy

Which Supreme Court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson & integrated public schools

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Sweatt v. Painter

• Delgado v. Bastrop ISD

• Hernandez v. Texas

Where did President Eisenhower send the 101st Airborne to enforce integration of a public high school?

• Little Rock, Arkansas
• Tuscaloosa, Alabama
• Birmingham, Alabama
• Jackson, Mississippi

What state laws created separate public facilities for African Americans in the South?

• Jim Crow Laws
• affirmative action
• Civil Rights Acts
• Force Acts

The March on Washington led to what landmark congressional law that banned discrimination based on race, religion, sex, or national origin?

• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Civil Rights Act of 1957
• Civil Rights Act of 1968

What was the goal of the Black Panthers?

• to turn American citizens against democracy
• to end the Vietnam War
• to convince African Americans to support "black power"
• to gain equal pay for black Americans

Segregation caused by private action or custom & not legislation is known as

• de facto segregation

• de jure segregation

• affirmative action

• ex post facto segregation

In the 1954 trial of Brown v Board of Education, the US Supreme Court ruled that

• private schools should be controlled by the federal government
• issues of racial segregation should be decided by the states.
• racially segregated public schools are unconstitutional
• the "separate but equal" doctrine should be contnued

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 Montgomery

Literacy tests & poll taxes were used in the South to keep African Americans from doing what?

• voting
• serving in the military
• moving north
• getting an education