2024 Summer School Civil Rights and Activism

Protesters who rode buses to test laws that banned segregation in public transportation facilities were called...

• Black Panthers

• Freedom Riders

• Integrators

• Harlem Roadsters

A law that keeps black and white people completely segregated

• Black Code

• Jim Crow Law

• Barrier Law

• Separate and Equal

What was the result of Rosa Parks' challenge to segregation on public buses in Montgomery, Alabama?

• African-Americans staged sit-ins on the bus until the law changed

• African-Americans boycotted the bus company until the law changed

• African-Americans staged protest marches to the bus station every day until the law changed

• African-Americans protested at city meetings and church services held in the white community

People who protest to call attention to a cause, like civil rights

• prejudice
• activist
• optimist
• don't read this, this is just a distraction

This lawyer helped argue the Brown v. Board of Education at the Supreme Court, he worked for the NAACP, he also will be the first African-American on the Supreme Court

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Oveta Culp Hobby

• Lyndon B. Johnson

Which amendment that gave women the right to vote?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 19th

Which national organization helped fight for equal rights for African Americans?

• LULAC

• NCAA

• NRA

• NAACP

Which national organization helped fight for equal rights for Latin Americans?

• LULAC

• NCAA

• NRA

• NAACP

In 1963, more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally for jobs and freedom, this was where Martin Luther King gave his "I Have a Dream" speech.

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Freedom Riders

• March on Washington

Except for the poll tax, this removed ALL remaining barriers to voting for African-Americans

• 15th Amendment

• 24th Amendment

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1965