MLK and Events
What tactic did MLK use to desegregate Montgomery buses?
A) march to Selma
B) sit ins
C) boycott
C) boycott
Who argued the Brown v. BOE case before the Supreme Court?
A) James Meredith
B) Thurgood Marshall
C) Stokely Carmichael
B) Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was the first African American ________
A) college football player
B) Supreme Court Justice
C) Vice Presidential candidate
B) Supreme Court Justice
First African American student to study at U of Mississippi
A) Stokely Carmichael
B) A. Philip Randolph
C) James Meredith
C) James Meredith
This is segregation that exists by social standards and customs
A) de facto
B) de jure
A) de facto
Which event was a major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement
A) Malcolm X’s conversion to orthodox Islam
B) MLK’s assassination
C) Robert Kennedy’s assassination
B) MLK’s assassination
LBJ asked Congress for passage of the voting rights act after this violent event was nationally televised
A) Emmett Till’s murder
B) Montgomery Bus Boycott
C) Selma to Montgomery March
C) Selma to Montgomery March
Who spoke at the Democratic National Convention in 1964
A) JFK
B) George Wallace
C) Fannie Lou Hamer
C) Fannie Lou Hamer
One goal of this organization was to eliminate police brutality in ghettos
A) SNCC
B) Black Panthers
C) Freedom Boycotters
B) Black Panthers
The I Have a Dream speech was given in which location
A) New York
B) Birmingham
C) Washington DC
C) Washington DC
the first organized movement against segregation was
A) the Montgomery bus boycott
B) the Birmingham children’s crusade
C) the march on Washington DC
A) the Montgomery bus boycott
What discrimination was banned after the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1968
A) hiring an employee
B) selling/renting a home
C) college admittance
B) selling/renting a home
Which individual didn’t support white Americans in the SNCC?
A) James Meredith
B) Thurgood Marshall
C) Stokely Carmichael
C) Stokely Carmichael
Which is not associated with the Black Power movement
A) Black Panthers
B) Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
C) Stokely Carmichael
B) Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Which of the following helped start the Civil Rights Movement?
A) apartheid in South Africa
B) the rising membership of the Black Power movement
C) World War II
C) World War II
What year was MLK assassinated?
A) 1967
B) 1968
C) 1969
B) 1968
This eliminated the literacy tests
A) Voting Rights Act of 1965
B) Civil Rights Act of 1964
C) Fair Housing Act
A) Voting Rights Act of 1965
Which president passed the Civil Rights Act of 1965
A) Kennedy
B) Johnson
C) Nixon
B) Johnson
Which of the following was not typical of the Black Panthers?
A) Black Power
B) community development
C) nonviolence
C) nonviolence
The Kerner Commission’s goal was
A) investigate the murder of Emmett Till
B) decriminalize separate but equal supporters
C) study the causes of urban violence
C) study the causes of urban violence
How many children did MLK have?
A) 2
B) 3
C) 4
C) 4
Brown v BOE overturned which of the following
A) due process of law
B) all deliberate speed
C) separate but equal
C) separate but equal
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 made segregation illegal in which of the following
A) private universities
B) churches
C) public accommodations
C) public accommodations
This group helped end segregation in interstate travel facilities
A) Black Panthers
B) Freedom Riders
C) Little Rock Nine
B) Freedom Riders
The Kerner Commission concluded that the main cause of urban violence was
A) black nationalism
B) de jure segregation
C) white racism
C) white racism