Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal
allow children to work.
to pay black people less than white people.
to return a slave.
to segregate schools.
2. Multiple Choice
1 minute
1 pt
After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, it was no longer legal to
let African Americans ride the bus.
deny someone of a job because of their race.
fire someone for not doing their job.
kick someone out of the military.
3. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.
Sweatt v. Painter
Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
Mendez v. Kirby ISD
4. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
Nonviolent protest, where protesters occupied space in order to protest segregation.
Sit-In
Freedom Rides
Selma March
Filibuster
5. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Laws that placed freedom limitations on nonwhite people
Laws that made all people work together towards a common goal
6. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
Which US president signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Lyndon B. Johnson
John F. Kennedy
7. Multiple Choice
20 seconds
1 pt
The federal law outlawing literacy tests, poll taxes, and other requirements that made it difficult for southern blacks to exercise their right for suffrage
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
8. Multiple Choice
1 minute
1 pt
Person who was killed on April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony outside his hotel room at Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee after trying to help black sanitation workers receive better working conditions
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Robert Kennedy
9. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
Black nationalist leader who for awhile was a spokesman for the Nation of Islam; talked about black freedom “by any means necessary;” was assassinated on February 21, 1965, in NYC by Nation of Islam members
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King, Jr.
10. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
Who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus?
Charlayne Hunter
Harriet Tubman
Rosa Parks
Rebecca L. Felton
11. Multiple Choice
1 minute
1 pt
_______________ wrote "I Have a Dream" and delivered it to thousands in Washington, DC.
Harry Belafonte
Barack Obama
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jesse Jackson
12. Multiple Choice
1 minute
1 pt
In 1964, Martin received the _____________ for peace.
Nobel Prize
Oscar Award
13. Multiple Choice
1 minute
1 pt
Martin Luther King Day is celebrated on the 3rd Monday in _______________.
December
January
February
March
14. Multiple Choice
1 minute
1 pt
People who protest to call attention to a cause, like civil rights
activist
actor
reporter
scholar
15. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
Keeping things or people SEparate
prejudice
union
confederate
segregation
16. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
A form of nonviolent protest where people stop buying a product?