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social studies quiz
Civil Rights Movement (1950's - 1960's)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Black panthers | promoted violence to achieve change |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | civil rights activist, civil disobedience |
| Civil disobedience | nonviolent protests |
| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas | separate can never be equal |
| Little rock 9 | tried to integrate school |
| Rosa Parks | Montgomery Bus Boycott - protested segregation laws |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | outlawed discrimination and segregation (Jim Crow Laws - segregation and racial discrimination in the south) |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | removed barriers to black enfranchisement in the south, banning poll taxes literacy tests and other that prevented from blacks from voting |