Civil Rights Movement

What was the result of the Brown versus Board of Education court case in 1954?

• Segregation of public schools became illegal
• African Americans began to play professional sports
• Martin Luther King led the March on Washington
• Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus

Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice, first became famous for which of the following:

• Organizing the March on Washington
• Not giving us his bus seat
• Winning the court case of Brown versus Board of Education
• Giving African Americans the right to vote

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

• It made Jim Crow Laws illegal
• It allowed blacks to run for public office
• It ended segregation in schools
• It made poll taxes illegal

Which of the following best describes the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• Segregation on buses became illegal a few days after Rosa Parks began the protest
• Thousands of blacks blocked the streets so that buses could not finish their routes
• Martin Luther King was arrested for not giving up his seat to a white person
• Segregation of buses became illegal after many months of protesting

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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

Which Amendment states that anyone born in the United States is a citizen?

• 14th
• 15th
• 16th
• 13th

Who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus?

• Charlayne Hunter
• Harriet Tubman
• Rosa Parks
• Rebecca L. Felton

Father of the Civil Rights Movement, "I have a dream" speech at the March on Washington

• Lester Maddox
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Andrew Young
• Benjamin Mays

New laws that required all public facilities to be integrated and prohibited discrimination in business and labor unions.

• Sibley Commission
• Albany Movement
• 1946 Governor's Race
• Civil Rights Act

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