African American Civil Rights Movement
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  • Question 1
    30 seconds
    Q. During World War II, how did the NAACP help African Americans?
    answer choices
    They challenged individual segregation cases in court 
    They fought for equal opportunity for African Americans in housing and employment 
    They helped African Americans register to vote
    all of the above
  • Question 2
    30 seconds
    Q. Which United States president ended segregation in the Armed Forces in 1948?
    answer choices
    Harry S. Truman 
    Lyndon Johnson 
    Dwight Eisenhower 
    John F. Kennedy
  • Question 3
    30 seconds
    Q. Which United States president called in federal troops to support African American students at Little Rock Central High School?
    answer choices
    John F. Kennedy
    Dwight Eisenhower 
    Lyndon Johnson
    Harry S. Truman  
  • Question 4
    30 seconds
    Q. What legal action helped to end segregation in public schools?
    answer choices
    Brown v. Board of Education
    Hernandez v. Texas 
    Plessy v. Ferguson 
    The Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Question 5
    30 seconds
    Q. Name the Supreme Court Judge who made this statement about education:“We conclude that in the field of public education, the doctrine of “separate but equal’ has no place.  Separate educational facilities are always unequal.”

    answer choices
    Orval Faubus
    Thurgood Marshall
    Earl Warren 
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Question 6
    30 seconds
    Q. forcing people to use separate facilities according to race
    answer choices
    boycott 
    segregation
    civil disobedience
    integration 
  • Question 7
    30 seconds
    Q. The mixing of different racial groups
    answer choices
    boycott
    segregation
    integration 
    civil disobedience
  • Question 8
    30 seconds
    Q. The Montgomery Improvement Association was created in ___________ to support the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
    answer choices
    1947
    1955  
    1965
    1896
  • Question 9
    30 seconds
    Q. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was founded by ___________________
    answer choices
    African Americans to fight for Civil Rights
    White Americans to end integration laws
    the federal government to fight for Civil Rights 
    The state government to end integration laws
  • Question 10
    30 seconds
    Q. Montgomery is located in the state of Georgia
    answer choices
    True 
    False
  • Question 11
    30 seconds
    Q. Jackie Robinson was chosen as Rookie of the Year in his first year in the Major Leagues
     
    answer choices
    True
    False
  • Question 12
    30 seconds
    Q. The first war that US soldiers fought side by side in integrated units was the Vietnam War
    answer choices
    True 
    False
  • Question 13
    30 seconds
    Q. The NAACP challenged the Plessy v. Ferguson for the first time during World War II.
    answer choices
    True
    False
  • Question 14
    30 seconds
    Q. Why was Moses Fleetwood Walker important to the history of Major League Baseball?
    answer choices
    He was the first African American player to join a Major League team in 1947
    He was the first African American player to join a Major League team in 1884
    He was the first African American player to become Rookie of the year
    He was the first African American coach for a Major League team in 1884
  • Question 15
    30 seconds
    Q. Which of the following was NOT an effect of the Montgomery bus boycott?
    answer choices
    It marked the end of segregated facilities and services in southern states
    It proved the effectiveness of civil disobedience as a way to win rights
    Martin Luther King Jr emerged as a major civil rights leader 
    It focused the nation’s attention on the struggle for civil rights in the South
  • Question 16
    30 seconds
    Q. Who was the NAACP lawyer who later became the first African American Supreme Court Judge?
    answer choices
    Orval Faubus 
    Thurgood Marshall
    Earl Warren 
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Question 17
    30 seconds
    Q. The United States Armed Forces were integrated 
    answer choices
    In 1948 after World War II ended 
    In 1948 before World War II ended
    In 1955 after the Brown v. Board of Education decision
    In 1956 after the Montgomery Bus Boycott ended
  • Question 18
    30 seconds
    Q. How did Dwight Eisenhower help African Americans in the fight for equal rights?
    answer choices
    He was the Supreme Court judge who made the decision to end segregation in public schools
    He was the Supreme Court judge who made the decision to end segregation on Montgomery Buses
    He was the president of the United States who sent federal troops to escort African American children into a Little Rock High School 
    Dwight Eisenhower was reluctant to help African Americans during his time as president
  • Question 19
    30 seconds
    Q. What legal action made it acceptable to allow segregation in public facilities?
    answer choices
    Brown v. Board of Education
    Hernandez v. Texas
    Plessy v. Ferguson 
    The Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Question 20
    30 seconds
    Q. Little Rock is located in the state of Arkansas
    answer choices
    True
    False
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