CUSH: Civil Rights - Part 1

This lawyer helped argue for Brown in Brown v. Board of Education.

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Oveta Culp Hobby

• Lyndon B. Johnson

Bus rides to the South to ensure desegregation was enforced are called

• Rosa Parks

• Jim Crow Laws

• Freedom Rides

• The Great Society

Who is the Civil rights leader who founded CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)

• James L Farmer

• Thurgood Marshall

• W.E.B. Dubois

• Julian Baker

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

• LULAC

• NCAA

• NRA

• NAACP

Who was arrested for refusing to move on a bus? The result led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

• Claudette Colvin

• Rosa Parks

• Stokely Carmichael

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme ruled that...

• separate but equal schools were unconstitutional

• public schools should be segregated

• all children should attend public schools

• schools should be given equal amounts of money

Why were the Little Rock Nine unable to attend Central High School on September 4, 1957?

• President Dwight D. Eisenhower had sent U.S. Army troops to the school.
• The governor of Arkansas had ordered troops from the state's National Guard to stop them.
• An angry mob prevented the students from entering the building
• The U.S. Supreme Court had ruled against segregation in Brown v. Board of Education.

Where was Central High located?

• Little Rock, Arkansas

• Boulder, Colorado

• Stonecrest, Georgia

• Jackson, Mississippi

What year did the Little Rock Nine try to enter Central High School for the first time?

• 2001

• 1910

• 1927

• 1957