Civil Rights test review

Who supported the movement and formed a Committee on Civil Rights to recommend improvements for black citizens. 

• Rosa Parks

• Harry Truman

• Benjamin Mays

• Martin Luther King Jr.

Who was a minister and educator who became President of Morehouse College in Atlanta in 1940.

• Benjamin Mays

• Rosa Parks

• Lester Maddox

• John Lewis

• Who became a national hero and recognized as the leader of the Civil Rights movement after successfully leading the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955. 

• Malcolm X
• Harriet Tubman
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Rosa Parks

What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• A civil rights protest in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked by Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus.
• A music festival in Montgomery, Alabama
• A culinary event celebrating local cuisine in Montgomery
• A sports competition held annually in Montgomery

 Which was established that segregation was legal as long as it was equal?

• Marbury v. Madison
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Roe v. Wade

What was Brown vs. Board?

• A famous boxing match between two rivals
• A popular TV show in the 1960s
• A type of board game invented in the 1800s
• A landmark Supreme Court case in 1954 that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.

What was the overturning Plessy vs. Ferguson?

• Brown vs. Board of Education
• Marbury vs. Madison
• Roe vs. Wade

In 1967, who became the first African American Supreme Court Justice.

• Thurgood Marshall
• Harriet Tubman
• Malcolm X
• Rosa Parks

Who was Georgia’s governor that had been elected to office in 1948, refused to desegregate Georgia’s public schools?

• Jimmy Carter
• Herman Talmadge
• Zell Miller
• Nathan Deal

Why was Georgia’s flag redesigned to include the Confederate battle flag?

• Symbol of support for civil rights movement
• Symbol of unity among diverse groups
• To protest Brown vs. the Board of Education.

• Symbol of celebration for Georgia's independence