Civil Rights Test

The lunch counter “sit-ins” were meant to

• antagonize the restaurant owners.
• draw attention to segregation and challenge the law.
• provoke police intervention.
• protest rising food costs

Which organization was founded by young students in the South after the Sit-Ins?

• Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee (SNCC)

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

• The Nation of Islam

• The Black Panthers

Which court case stated, "We conclude that in the field of public education, the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."

• Plessy v. Ferguson 
• Brown v. Board of Education 
• Miranda v. Arizona
• Escobedo v. Illinois

Which lawyer argued against segregation in the Supreme Court Case Brown v. Board of Education - and would go on to become the first African-
American Supreme Court Justice?

• Ralph Abernathy

• Thurgood Marshall

• John Lewis

• Fannie Lou Hamer

A form of nonviolent protest where people stop buying a product is the 

• march
• boycott
• sit in
• riot

Who traveled south in defiance of segregationist customs to test interstate whether buses were integrating or not?

• NAACP members
• Freedom Riders
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The Black Panthers

MLK led a protest called the Montgomery Bus Boycott. They were protesting the fact that...

• blacks paid more to ride the bus than whites.
• blacks could not ride the bus.
• blacks had to sit separately from whites on the bus.
• blacks had to sit next to whites on the bus.

The use of peaceful means, not force, to bring about political or social change, is called...

• black power
• black nationalism
• civil disobedience

• integration

Allowing people of all races to attend schools and public places together is called...

• integration
• discrimination
• black nationalism
• segregation

The Supreme Court Case Plessy v. Ferguson allowed for

• Separate but equal facilities
• The integration of U.S. schools
• Increased voting rights for blacks
• The use of peaceful protests