Civil Rights

The Montgomery Bus Boycott gave African Americans the freedom to bomb city buses in order to stop discrimination.

• True
• False

Martin Luther King, Jr. believed that passive, non-violent resistance would eventually win the Civil Rights Movement.

• True
• False

President John F. Kennedy eventually signed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

• True
• False

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 gave all African Americans the right to vote.

• True
• False

Passed in 1965; banned literacy tests as a condition for voting.

• Brown vs. Board of Education
• Voting Rights Act
• Civil Rights Act

Who is this civil rights activist?

• Ruby Bridges
• Rosa Parks
• Thurgood Marshall
• Martin Luther King Jr.

Lawyer who won the Brown vs. Board of Education case.

• Thurgood Marshall
• Lyndon B. Johnson

Laws that enacted segregation throughout the south.

• Voting Rights Act
• Civil Rights Act
• Jim Crow Laws

Who is this civil rights activist?

• Ruby Bridges
• Rosa Parks
• Thurgood Marshall
• Martin Luther King Jr.

Who was the first african american major league baseball player?

• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Thurgood Marshall
• Jackie Robinson