The Civil Rights Movement Test Review

What was the purpose of the Freedom Rides?

Where did Rosa Parks refuse to follow segregated seating on public buses?

What is Thurgood Marshall best known for?

Who coined the phrase “Black Power”?

What gave the right to vote regardless of race?

Which civil rights activists promoted black self-reliance and achieving civil rights through any means necessary?

What is the Southern Manifesto?

What was the significance of the Children’s March/Crusade during the Birmingham Campaign in 1963?

Where did the sit-in movement to desegregate lunch counters start?

When was this photograph taken?

What was the effect of the grandfather clause in Southern states?

Where did Martin Luther King Jr. write his famous letter in jail defending his use of civil disobedience?

What was the primary purpose of the March from Selma to Montgomery in 1965?

What does NAACP stand for?

What president signed both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

Why were poll taxes implemented in the South after Reconstruction?

Which constitutional principle was used in Brown v. Board of Education?

What does OPHR stand for?

What does CORE stand for?

What does “Bloody Sunday” refer to?

How did the NAACP primarily fight segregation?

What does SNCC stand for?

What was the main purpose of Jim Crow laws?

Who is known for his "stand in the schoolhouse door" at the University of Alabama?

Which president sent federal troops to enforce school integration in Little Rock, Arkansas?

Which amendment eliminated poll taxes?

What does SCLC stand for?

Who was the founding leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?

Which president referred to civil rights as a moral issue?

Who is known for integrating the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss)?

Where did Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his famous "I Have a Dream" speech?

Which of the following speeches was delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. the day before his assassination?

Why were literacy tests used during the Jim Crow era?

What was the main goal of the 1964 Freedom Summer campaign?

Who used the National Guard in Arkansas to block the Little Rock Nine?

What is affirmative action?

What youth-led civil rights group formed to organize sit-ins and voter registration drives?

What is de jure segregation?

What was one major goal of the Black Panther Party?

Which event had the greatest impact on persuading Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

When did Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his “I Have a Dream” speech?

What legal precedent was set by Plessy v. Ferguson?

Who protested racial injustice at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City?

When was this photograph taken?

Who co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966?

Who had the greatest influence on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophy of nonviolent resistance?

What was the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education?