Civil Rights Movements

What protest would Martin Luther King have opposed?

• Sit-In
• Bus Boycott
• March on Washington
• Race Riots

What was the result of the Brown v. Board of Education case?

• Segregation in public schools became illegal
• African-Americans began playing profession sports
• Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus
• MLK led a March on Washington

Thurgood Marshall was famous for being the first African-American Supreme Court Justice and....

• Assassinating JFK
• Organizing the March on Washington
• Winning the Brown v. the Board of Education case
• Giving African-Americans the right to vote

What was the purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

• It made Jim Crow Laws illegal
• It allowed African-Americans to run for political office
• It ended segregation in school
• It made poll taxes illegal

What was the purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

• It gave African-American women the right to vote
• It made literacy tests to vote illegal
• It made Jim Crow Laws illegal
• It allowed all African-Americans to vote

The March on Washington is most famous for...

• causing race riots in Washington, D.C.
• 200,000 people worked together to get the right to vote
• the KKK became an illegal organization
• MLK gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech

Which of the following best describes the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• Segregation on buses became illegal after a couple of days of boycotting
• Segregation on buses became illegal after months of boycotting
• African-Americans blocked the streets preventing buses from operating
• Martin Luther King was arrested for not giving up his seat

What is the purpose of the 24th Amendment?

• It ended slavery
• It ended segregation based on race
• It made poll taxes illegal
• It made it legal for Thurgood Marshall to be selected for the Supreme Court

What organization did W.E.B. Du Bois found?

• The Back to Africa Movement

• Tuskegee Institute

• NAACP

• Access for all movement

This amendment granted African American men the right to vote (1870) (USH.9A)

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th
• 5th