Civil Rights & Key Issues

Effects; Separate educational facilities and resources for white and African-American students, Social isolation of races; what was the cause?

• Segregation

• Integration

• G.I. Bill

• Civil Rights legislation

At our first stop in Virginia...I was confronted with "separate but equal". A modern rest station with gleaming counters and picture windows was labeled "white", and a small wooden shack beside it was labeled "colored". - Situations such as this were directly improved by?

• the Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• the Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Korematsu v. United States

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of it's creed:" - The words are from a speech by?

• Harry S. Truman

• Rosa Parks

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus started the Montgomery bus boycott?

• Harriet Tubman

• Rosa Parks

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Sojourner Truth

"States are prohibited from imposing any voting qualifications or prerequisite to voting or to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color" - Which of the following is being described in the document?

• Armed Forces Desegregation Act

• the Civil Rights Act of 1964

• the Voting Rights Act of 1965

• G.I. Bill

"Extends voting rights and outlaws racial discrimination in schools and the workplace and by facilities that serve the general public" - Which of the following is being described in the document?

• Armed Forces Desegregation Act

• the Civil Rights Act of 1964

• the Voting Rights Act of 1965

• G.I. Bill

The Civil Rights Movement opposed Plessy v. Ferguson and its premise of?

• separate but equal

• equal rights for all races

• different pay for men and women

• voting rights for women

Which worked mainly to improve conditions for women?

• United Nations (UN)

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

• National Organization for Women (NOW)

The types of protests against segregation facilitated by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was called?

• massive resistance

• organized resistance

• passive resistance

• racial resistance

What is the best title for the list?

Airlines (Jet Engine)

Automobiles & Interstate Highway

Entertainment and News Media

Space Exploration

Computers

Satellite Systems

Internet

• Industries that Helped End World War II

• Industries Benefitting from New Technologies

• Industries that Relied on Old Technologies

• Industries that Practiced Unfair Hiring Practices