Unit 9: Civil Rights Review

How did Cesar Chavez primarily advocate for farmworkers’ rights?

• By encouraging violent uprisings

• By filing lawsuits to end school segregation

• By organizing strikes and consumer boycotts

•  By forming a third political party

Which organization focused on using the court system to challenge segregation laws?

• NAACP

• SNCC

• CORE

• Black Panther Party

The main goal of the Freedom Rides in 1961 was to —

• Protest housing discrimination in northern cities

•  Organize labor unions in the South

•  Register rural voters in Mississippi

• Test enforcement of Supreme Court rulings banning segregation in interstate travel

What was a key difference between Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Panther Party?

• King promoted nonviolence; the Panthers supported armed self-defense.

• King focused on court cases; the Panthers avoided politics.

• King rejected federal laws; the Panthers relied on Congress.

• King supported segregation; the Panthers did not.

What was the primary purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

• To establish affirmative action programs

•  To end segregation in public places and employment

•  To desegregate the armed forces

• To eliminate literacy tests

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 most directly addressed which discriminatory practice?

• School segregation

• Housing redlining

• Literacy tests

• Poll taxes

How did Rosa Parks influence the Civil Rights Movement?

• Her arrest led to a large-scale bus boycott in Montgomery.

• She organized the March on Washington.

• She argued a Supreme Court case.

• She formed the Black Panther Party.

What was the significance of Brown v. Board of Education?

• It required equal funding for schools.

•  It upheld the “separate but equal” doctrine.

• It created affirmative action policies.

•  It declared school segregation unconstitutional.

 In Hernandez v. Texas, the Supreme Court ruled that —

• Mexican Americans could legally be segregated.

• Schools must desegregate immediately.

• Jury exclusion based on ethnicity violated equal protection.

• Poll taxes were unconstitutional.

President Harry S. Truman advanced civil rights in 1948 by —

•  Desegregating the military through executive order

•  Supporting segregation laws

• Passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Appointing the first African American Supreme Court justice