Sixties USH Quiz

Sit-ins were first used to desegregate

I was appointed to be the attorney general under JFK. I was assassinated during my run for the presidency.

A federal ban on segregation in all interstate travel facilities was accomplished by which civil rights group?

These three CORE activists were murdered in Mississippi by the KKK for doing what?

Which of these tactics did Martin Luther King Jr. and the SCLC use most in their struggle to win equal rights?

What was the famous phrase from Brown vs. Board of Education?

I was a famous baseball player that was the first African-American to play in the Major League.

Which doctrine relating to public education was overturned by the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education?

What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 enable federal officials to do?

What did the Roe vs. Wade case legalize?

What does SNCC stand for?

This civil rights law attempted to amend the Constitution was passed by congress but was never ratified by the states.

What 1954 lawsuit challenged the constitutionality of school segregation laws?

What figure inspired MLK’s ideals of non-violence?

He argued for the NAACP in the Brown vs. Board of Education case.

The first openly gay politician to get elected in the U.S. A shooter assassinated me and the mayor of SF.

He was the Nation of Islam leader who urged blacks to separate from white society.

Which president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law?

Medicare, a federal program established for Americans age 65 and over, provided

My refusal to not sit in the back of the bus started the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

This Chicano leader began a union among Mexican migrant farm workers.

I wrote the Feminine Mystique which described the depression caused when college educated women became housewives.

This term means to refuse to obey unjust laws as a peaceful form of protest.

I was the president who ordered soldiers to protect African-American students in Arkansas. I was a moderate Republican.

De jure segregation is segregation that results from ________.

What is the name of LBJ’s legislation which tried to fight poverty and extend civil rights?

Which is NOT a federally protected group under the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

This Supreme Court Chief Justice led a Court which aggressively acted for social change.

Who sent members into the streets armed with law books and guns to protect blacks from police mistreatment?

I was the first African American student admitted into the segregated University of Mississippi in ’62.

What were the Freedom Riders?