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The Civil Rights Movement

Description: A US History quiz designed to test your knowledge on the Civil Rights Movement
Number of Questions: 10
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Which lawyer from Brown v. Board of Education became the first black Supreme Court Justice?

  1. Colin Powell

  2. Clarence Thomas

  3. Thurgood Marshall

  4. Andrew Thompson


Correct Option: C

Which decision was determined in the Supreme Court Case Loving v. Virginia in 1967?

  1. Blacks could attend public schools in Alabama.

  2. Laws prohibiting interracial marriage were invalidated.

  3. Blacks could serve in Virginia's armed forces.

  4. It allowed blacks to work in the public sector.


Correct Option: B

During "Bloody Sunday", who did police forces attack?

  1. a group of workers in Atlanta, Georgia

  2. students protesting in New York City

  3. a group of protestors in Selma, Alabama

  4. a group of protestors in Jackson, Mississippi


Correct Option: C

In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from which location?

  1. The Lincoln Memorial

  2. The Washington Monument

  3. The Capitol Building

  4. The Vietnam Memorial


Correct Option: A

In Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s "Letter from Birmingham Jail", for what does he advocate?

  1. boycott of American goods

  2. mass protests

  3. He asks for people to release him from prison.

  4. non-violent resistance


Correct Option: D

True or False: The 16th St. Baptist Church bombing was a major turning point for civil rights.

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: A

The most dramatic moment seen during the Central High School desegregation effort was...

  1. when Dr. Martin Luther King arrived to join the effort.

  2. the awful treatment of a black girl by segregationists.

  3. segregationists being peaceful.

  4. None of these


Correct Option: B

Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a bus and triggered a bus boycott in which city?

  1. Savannah, Georgia

  2. Atlanta, Georgia

  3. Montgomery, Alabama

  4. Jackson, Mississippi


Correct Option: C

What was decided in the U.S. Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education?

  1. It guaranteed the right to vote for all African Americans.

  2. It prohibited racial segregation in public schools.

  3. It allowed for racial segregation in the South.

  4. It made racial segregation legal in all schools.


Correct Option: B
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