Civil Rights
Jackie Robinson
• First African American to play major league baseball
• Played for the Brooklyn Dodgers beginning in 1947
• Inspired African Americans to hope for better
treatment and the end to segregation that was
achieved by the civil rights movement
• One of the best baseball players ever
Brown vs. Board of Education of
Topeka, Kansas
• 1954 Supreme Court decision that
outlawed Jim Crow laws
mandating segregation in public
schools
• First major decision of the Warren
Court
• Helped inspire the civil rights
movement
Warren Court
• Refers to the Supreme Court during the years that Earl
Warren served as chief justice (1953-1969)
• The Warren Court is most famous for its unanimous
decision that segregationist Jim Crow Laws were
unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka, Kansas
• Also known as a period of judicial activism and a time of
expansion of individual rights
• Other famous cases include the decision guaranteeing that
the arrested should know their rights (Miranda v. Arizona)
and the decision amplifying the right to privacy (Griswald
v. Connecticut)
Montgomery Bus Boycott
• First major demonstration of the civil rights movement
• Began in 1955 when Rosa Parks (a local leader of the NAACP
refused to give her seat on the bus to a white man, in violation of Jim
Crow laws
• African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama undertook a boycott of
the bus system to protest segregation
• Brought local pastor Martin Luther King Jr. to national prominence
• Ended after more than a year when the Supreme Court ruled that
segregation on buses was unconstitutional
• Shortly after the boycott, Martin Luther King Jr. founded the Southern
Leadership Conference (SCLC), which helped organize the civil rights
movement
Civil rights movement
• Organized Campaign for African American civil rights.
• Carried out between the mid-1950s and the late-1960s.
• Most famous leader was the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr., who advocated non-violent civil disobedience as the primary
tactic to achieve change.
• Major events included the supreme court’s Brown v. Board of
Education of Topeka, Kansas decision, the Montgomery bus
boycott, the formation of the Southern Christian Leadership
conference (SCLC), the Woolworth’s sit-ins, the formation of the
student Nonviolent coordinating committee (SNCC), and the
March of Washington.
• The protest in Birmingham, Freedom summer (1964, the march
from Selma to Montgomery, the passage of the civil Rights Act of
1964, the 24th Amendment, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Martin Luther Jr. King
• Leader of the civil rights movement
• Baptist minister; masterminded the nonviolent civil
disobedience strategy of the civil rights movement.
• Founder of the Southern Christian Conference
(SCLC)
• Gave famous “I Have a Dream,” speech at the
March on Washington
• Assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis
• First individual other than George Washington and
Abraham Lincoln to have a federal holiday in his
honor.
George Wallace
• Governor of Alabama during the 1950’s and 1960’s
• Strong supporter of Jim Crow laws
• Ordered state troops to disrupt the march from Selma in
the civil rights movement
• Garnered almost 10 million votes in a run for president as
a segregationist third-party candidate in 1968 against
Richard M. Nixon and Hubert Humphrey
• Planned to run again in 1972, but was shot and paralyzed
the year before
Freedom Summer
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A major event of the civil rights movement
1964 effort to expand AA voter registration in the South
Managed to register only 1,200 new voters
15 freedom summer volunteers were killed
Promoted the need for the Voting Rights Act of 1965
March on Washington
• 1963 demonstration that was a major event
on the Civil Rights movement
• Brought 250,000 people to the nation’s
capitol (making it the largest ever
demonstration in America at that time)
• Site of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous
“I have a dream speech”
Black Power
• Militant movement that grew in
the mid and late 1960’s as some
lost patience with the slow
progress of the Civil Rights
movement
• Advocated by Malcolm X, who
was a leader of the black Muslim
movement, and the Black
Panthers, a militant, non-Muslim
organization
Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Pushed through congress by Lyndon B. Johnson
• A major accomplishment of the civil rights
movement
• Outlawed literacy tests and other systems that kept
African Americans from voting, and placed both
voter registration and elections under federal
jurisdiction.
• Who refused to give up a bus
seat on a Montgomery public
bus to a white person?
a) Rosa Parks
b) Orval Faublus
c) Thurgood Marshall
d) Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Which of the following is NOT true
about the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
a) The act desegregated public
accommodations.
b) The act prohibited discrimination.
c) Lyndon B. Johnson played an
important role in the passage of the
act.
d) The act was proposed by President
Eisenhower.
• Which of the following was a
result of the civil rights
movement?
a) The 24th Amendment, eliminating the
poll tax
b) The 26th Amendment, lowering the
voting age to 18
c) The election of John F. Kennedy as
president
d) The end of the Ku Klux Klan
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What effect did the Voting Rights
Act of 1965 have on the number of
African American voters in the
south?
the number minimally increased
the number decreased
the number remained the same
the number increased significantly
• The Supreme Court case Brown v.
Board of Education of Topeka,
Kansas ruled that segregation in
_______________ was
unconstitutional.
a) schools
b) restaurants
c) hotels
d) restrooms
• The landmark "I Have a
Dream" civil rights speech
was delivered at the 1963
March on Washington, D.C. by
a) John F. Kennedy
b) Malcolm X
c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
d) Rosa Parks
• Which of the following cases
decided by the Supreme Court
under the leadership of Chief
Justice Earl Warren did the most
to advance the goals of the civil
rights movement?
a) Griswold v. Connecticut
b) Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka, Kansas
c) Gideon v. Wainwright
d) Miranda v. Arizona
• All of the following are major
events of the civil rights
movement EXCEPT
a) the Montgomery bus boycott
b) the Seneca Falls Convention
c) the founding of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference
d) freedom summer
• Who is known as the most
vocal Black Muslim?
a) James Earl Ray
b) Malcolm X
c) Martin Luther King
d) Mohammad Ali
• As stated in the Voting Rights
Act of 1965, what test is
outlawed?
a) intelligence
b) literacy
c) SOL
d) standardized
• To who is Martin Luther King
Jr.'s tactics compared?
a) Winston Churchill
b) Malcolm X
c) Mohandas Gandhi
d) John Brown
• Which of the following
legislative acts did the most
to increase voting among
African Americans?
a) Civil Rights Act of 1964
b) 14th Amendment
c) 15th Amendment
d) Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Which of the following twentiethcentury constitutional
amendments does NOT directly
defend or expand individual
rights?
a) 22nd , limiting presidential terms
b) 19th, enfranchising women
c) 26th, lowering the voting age
d) 24th, eliminating poll taxes
• What is the name given to the
massive resistance of the Brown v.
Board of Education of Topeka,
Kansas ruling where many white
students attend private academies
and some schools closed?
a) nonviolent resistance
b) civil disobedience
c) separatism
d) white flight
• What is the name given to the
years between the Brown
verdict and Martin Luther
King's assassination?
a) Discrimination Decade
b) Power to Civil Rights
c) Second Reconstruction
d) Black separatism
• Which Supreme Court case set
the "separate but equal"
precedent?
a) Roe v. Wade
b) Marbury v. Madison
c) Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka, Kansas
d) Plessey v. Ferguson
• What is the term for
peacefully demonstrating for
a change of policy without
fighting authorities?
a) boycott
b) nonviolent resistance
c) civil disobedience
d) martyr
• Who led the NAACP legal
defense team in the Supreme
Court case Brown v. Board of
Education of Topeka, Kansas?
a) John Marshall
b) Earl Warren
c) Thurgood Marshall
d) Oliver Hill
• Did John F. Kennedy support
the civil rights movement?
a) yes
b) no
• Did Lyndon B. Johnson
support the civil rights
movement?
a) yes
b) no
• Which event helped influence
public opinion to support civil
rights legislation and
demonstrated the power of nonviolent, mass protest?
a) Little Rock Nine
b) Freedom Rides
c) Montgomery bus boycott
d) 1963 March on Washington
• As stated in the Voting Rights
Act of 1965, who are
responsible for registering
voters in the South?
a) state registrars
b) federal registrars
c) hired registrars
d) district registrars
a) Aims of the Great
Society: 1.Eradicate racial injustice
2. Share abundance 3.Overcome
disease 4. Dispel ignorance The
Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the
Voting Rights Act of 1965 are
examples of Great Society
legislation addressing:
b) Aim 2
c) Aim 3
d) Aim 4
e) Aim 1