Civil Rights (Flocabulary Quiz)
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- Q 1/10Score 0What did the case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decide?29The idea of "separate but equal" schools is unconstitutional.
Federal troops must help schools desegregate.
Having separate schools and facilities for blacks and whites is constitutional.
Schools for blacks should receive more funding.
- Q1What did the case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decide?The idea of "separate but equal" schools is unconstitutional.
Federal troops must help schools desegregate.
Having separate schools and facilities for blacks and whites is constitutional.
Schools for blacks should receive more funding.
30s - Q2Which of the following did Martin Luther King, Jr. believe?You don't have to use violence to change the world.
People have the right to create change by any means necessary.
People have the right to create change by any means necessary.
Race riots are the only way to achieve equality.
30s - Q3Which of the following is an example of "separate but equal" not working in practice?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed racial discrimination.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was inspired by Gandhi and Thoreau.
Both whites and blacks supported Martin Luther King, Jr.'s message.
When schools were segregated, schools for whites had better funding and more resources than schools for blacks.30s - Q4What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do right after the arrest of Rosa Parks?
He delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.
He went on a pilgrimage to Mecca.
He organized a march on Washington, DC.
He organized a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.30s - Q5Some African-Americans didn't support Dr. King's approach to ending discrimination because they thought it was too ________.weak
violent
religious
immoral
30s - Q6Which of the following did Malcolm X believe before his pilgrimage to Mecca?Blacks can only achieve equality through radical change.
No one should have a last name.
All blacks should return to Africa.
Civil rights were unimportant.
30s - Q7In Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech, he says that his dream is "deeply rooted in the ________ dream."
constitutional
AmericanAfrican-American
equal
30s - Q8What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?
It desegregated schools.
It said Plessy v. Ferguson was constitutional.
It outlawed discrimination based on race in public facilities.It gave African-Americans the right to vote.
30s - Q9The direct cause of the 1965 race riots in Watts was ________.
the bombing of a Birmingham church
Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus
the arrest of a young black man who was pulled over while driving a carthe assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
30s - Q10How did Malcolm X's message change after his religious journey to Mecca?
It became angrier.
It became softer.It became less tolerant.
It became more hopeless.
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