Civil Rights Movement Quiz

The 24th Amendment, ratified in 1964, prohibited the use of poll taxes in federal elections. This was a significant step in protecting voting rights.

The 14th Amendment includes the Equal Protection Clause, which requires states to provide all citizens with equal protection under the law. It is a cornerstone of civil rights law.

Bloody Sunday refers to the March 7, 1965, event where peaceful marchers were attacked by state troopers in Selma, Alabama. This event helped galvanize support for the Voting Rights Act.

James Meredith became the first African American student to be admitted to the University of Mississippi in 1962. His enrollment was met with significant resistance and federal intervention.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted for 381 days, from December 1955 until the Supreme Court ruled that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional in December 1956.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, workplaces, and public accommodations.

Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were all common tactics used by Southern states to disenfranchise African American voters after the Civil War.

Freedom Summer was a 1964 voter registration project in Mississippi. It aimed to expand black voting in the South by bringing in volunteers from across the country.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was specifically designed to enforce the 15th Amendment and remove legal barriers that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote.

Brown v. Board of Education (1954) was the landmark Supreme Court decision that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. It overturned the precedent set by Plessy v. Ferguson.

Integration is the process of ending the separation of people by race or other characteristics. Segregation is the opposite, referring to the forced separation of groups.

The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) is a long-standing civil rights organization in the United States that has historically fought for the rights of African Americans.

Cesar Chavez was a labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association to fight for better conditions for agricultural workers.

Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders, or commands of a government, specifically when those laws are deemed unjust, without resorting to physical violence.

The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was the location where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous I Have a Dream speech.

Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967, becoming the first African American to serve as a Justice.

Martin Luther King Jr. is widely recognized as the primary leader of the nonviolent civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s.

By breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947, Jackie Robinson played a significant role in the integration of professional sports in America.

The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in 1960 which led to the Woolworth's department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.

The integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, involved all of these factors: the governor attempted to block entry, the president sent federal troops to enforce the law, and the students faced significant harassment.

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) was the Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the doctrine of separate but equal.

The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.

The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1964, prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.

The Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education declared that separate educational facilities are inherently unequal, thereby making segregation in public schools illegal.