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Civil Rights Movement

Quiz by Williams, Tom

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  • Q1
    Who argued that violence was a means of achieving change?
    Malcolm X
    30s
  • Q2
    Which was a feature in the life of John Lewis?
    Spoke at the March on Washington
    30s
  • Q3
    Which was a feature in the life of John Lewis?
    Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom
    30s
  • Q4
    Which was a feature in the life of John Lewis?
    Chairman of SNCC
    30s
  • Q5
    One of the first organized movements by African Americans to fight segregation was the -
    Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott
    30s
  • Q6
    In 1967 Thurgood Marshall became the first African American to...?
    Serve on the U.S. Supreme Court
    30s
  • Q7
    This group helped lead the effort to desegregate public facilities in Birmingham in 1963?
    SCLC
    30s
  • Q8
    March on Washington
    Event at which Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech
    30s
  • Q9
    Martin Luther King Jr. believed the way to end segregation was through...?
    Nonviolent peaceful resistance
    30s
  • Q10
    Which of the following laws said that citizens could not be denied the right to vote based on their race?
    Voting Rights Act of 1965
    30s
  • Q11
    SNCC stands for...
    Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
    30s
  • Q12
    The Little Rock Nine integrated Central High School in which state?
    Arkansas
    30s
  • Q13
    Who led the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    30s
  • Q14
    March on Washington
    It was August 28, 1963, when 250,000 people marched to Washington to protest segregation and support the Civil Rights Act. MLK gave his famous speech, "I Have a Dream".
    30s
  • Q15
    Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
    Civil rights group that organized the Freedom Rides
    30s

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