Civil Rights Movement Quiz

_______________ was the landmark court case that began the integration of schools.

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• Dred Scott vs. Sandford

• Thurgood Marshall

__________ was the NAACP lawyer who presented the case in Brown vs. Board of Education.

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Johnny Cochran

• Thurgood Marshall

• Rosa Parks

In this event, black citizens in Alabama decided to refuse to ride city buses until segregation on buses ended.

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Johnny Cochran

• Thurgood Marshall

• Rosa Parks

This woman, who inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott, was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man.

• Coretta Scott King

• Rosa Parks

• Bernice King

• Harriet Tubman

________ - 250,000 meet at the nations capital in this protest in 1963 to support a law that would end segregation.

• Civil Rights Act

• Voting Rights Act

• March on Washington

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

This civil rights leader who worked for the end of segregation and was murdered on April 4, 1968.

• John F. Kennedy

• Robert F. Kennedy

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Rosa Parks

This law passed in 1964 made segregation illegal. It was no longer legal to deny African-American entry to public places in the United States.

• Civil Rights Act

• Voting Rights Act

• Patriot Act

• March on Washington

_________ was the US president who worked to pass civil rights laws to help minorities; murdered in 1963.

• Henry Ford

• Gerald Ford

• Barak Obama

• John F. Kennedy

During the 1950s, how did the United States Supreme Court become involved with segregation in public schools?

• by writing laws that made segregation in public schools illegal

• by allowing the president of the United States to declare segregation in public school illegal

• by ruling in several cases that segregation in public schools was illegal

• by supporting an amendment to the Constiution to make segregation in public schools illegal

Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks were part of what movement in the 1950s and 1960s?

• the Free Silver Movement

• the Civil Rights Movement

• the Urban Renewal Movement

• the Anti-Immigration Movement