Civil Rights

According to the passage, what was the main goal of the Civil Rights Movement?

• To end racial equality

• To protect the rights of all citizens and end segregation

• To create new laws for voting

• To support only Black Americans

Civil rights include but are not limited to which of the following?

• Free speech

• Freedom of religion

• The right to a fair trial

• The right to privacy

Fill in the blank: Segregation was the practice of creating separate facilities for _______ Americans and white Americans. (p4)

• Black

• Asian

• Native

• Hispanic

The Supreme Court case of Plessy v Ferguson in 1896 decided that segregated facilities were unconstitutional.

• True

• False

What were Jim Crow laws? (p6)

• Laws that promoted equality

• Laws that forced people to be separated based on the color of their skin

• Laws that ended segregation

• Laws that protected voting rights

Name one leader mentioned in the passage who believed in non-violent protests during the Civil Rights Movement. (p7)

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• George Wallace

• Bull Connor

• J. Edgar Hoover

Martin Luther King Jr. is most famous for his ______ speech of 1963. (p8)

• I Have a Dream

• We Shall Overcome

• March to Freedom

• Let Freedom Ring

Who became the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for efforts to end racial segregation and discrimination? (p8)

• Rosa Parks

• Thurgood Marshall

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• John F. Kennedy

President John F. Kennedy proposed new laws that would provide equal rights to all Americans in what year? (p9)

• 1963

• 1959

• 1970

• 1967

Who was the NAACP's most important segregation case led by? (p10)

• Rosa Parks

• Thurgood Marshall

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Ruby Bridges