Civil Rights

Brown vs. Board of Education was a famous case heard by the United States Supreme Court in 1954. The court ruled that it is illegal to do what?

• Allow children to work long hours in factories

• Pay black people less than white people

• Segregate schools based off people's skin color

• Return an escape slave to his/her master

Rosa Parks was arrested here when she refused to give up her seat on the bus.  This led to what major protest during the Civil Rights Movement?

• Lunch Counter Sit-Ins

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Bus Freedom Riders

• Selma March

This law banned discrimination of any American because of race, gender,  or religion.

• Civil Rights Act

• Civil Rights Movement

• 15th Amendment

• Voting Act

This Civil Rights protest horrified the American public after it was shown on television.  It led to African Americans being allowed the right to vote when President Lyndon B. Johnson passed the Voting Act.

• March on Washington

• Lunch Counter Sit-Ins

• March on Selma

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

A civil rights leader arrested for protesting bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. Their actions helped to end the segregation of public buses.

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Malcom X

• Harriet Tubman

When protesters rode buses all across the South to protest segregation in train and bus stations, the bus trips were called ___________.

• Sit-in

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Freedom Rides

• Intergration Rides

A minister and Civil Rights leader during the 1950s and 1960s; believed in peaceful protest.

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Malcolm X

• Fredrick Douglas

Which president is responsible for desegregating the armed forces?

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• John F. Kennedy

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Harry Truman

A civil rights leader during the 1950s and 1960s; believed that white Americans would never support equal rights and promoted violence.

• Booker T. Washington

• Malcom X

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King Jr.

This law eliminated literacy tests and poll taxes in all elections.

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• 15th Amendment

• Voting Act of 1965