What was the law that prohibited discrimination based on race, gender, or religion?
Brown v. Board of Education
Voting Rights Act
Civil Rights Act
Jim Crow Laws
What law banned literacy tests for voting?
Brown v. Board of Education
Civil Rights Act
Voting Rights Act
Jim Crow Laws
Who was assassinated in 1968 angering many Americans and causing riots?
President Lyndon Johnson
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
President John F. Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
What was the protest where African Americans refused to ride buses until segregation on public transportation was outlawed??
Civil Rights Movement
March on Washington
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Brown v. Board of Education
What was the peaceful protest of over 250,000 people at the nation's capital called?
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Civil Rights Movement
I Have a Dream
March on Washington
President _______________________ was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
John F. Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
Lee Harvey Oswald
President Kennedy’s brother, ___________________ was also shot and killed while campaigning to be president on June 5, 1968.
John F. Kennedy
Martin Luther King Jr.
Robert Kennedy
Thurgood Marshall
Which country was the first to land a man on the moon?
United States of America
Soviet Union
Russia
Great Britain
What other technological advance came about in the 1960's?
microwave
telephone
television
dvd
Cesar Chavez wanted to improve _____.
working conditions for farm workers
schools for kids
roads for bikes
soil for grapes
Cesar Chavez's union wanted to make a change so he organized a strike. What happens in a strike?
People work for less money
People refuse to work until they get what they want
People break windows and steal from stores
People work longer hours
Which type of protest did Martin Luther King Jr. oppose(not agree with) during the civil rights movement?
boycotts
sit ins
marches
race riots
What was the results of the Brown vs. Board of Education court case in 1954?
Martin Luther King led the March on Washington
African Americans began to play professional sports
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus
Segregation of public schools became illegal
Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme court Justice, first became famous for which of the following:
Giving African Americans the right to vote
Organizing the March on Washington
Assassinating President Kennedy
Winning the court case Brown v. Board of Education
