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What was the peaceful protest of over 250,000 people on the nation's capital called?
a) Civil Rights movement
b) March on Washington
c) Montgomery Bus Boycott
d)

Whose assassination in 1968 angered Americans and caused many riots?
a) Rosa Parks
b) Thurgood Marshall
c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
d)

What was the civil rights case where the Supreme Court ruled it illegal for schools to be segregated?
a) Montgomery Bus Boycott
b) Civil Rights Act
c) Brown v. Board of Education
d)

What was the protest where African Americans refused to ride buses until segregation on public transportation was outlawed?
a) March on Washington
b) Civil Rights Movement
c) Montgomery Bus Boycott
d)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. encouraged others to use ______ methods in order to gain civil rights.
a) non-violent
b) violent
c) cruel
d)

What was the peaceful demonstration where MLK, Jr. gave his I Have a Dream speech?
a) Montgomery Bus Boycott
b) March of Washington
c) Voting Rights protest
d)

What was the law that prohibited discrimination based on race, gender, or religion?
a) Voting Rights Act
b) Brown v. Board of Education
c) Civil Rights Act
d)

Which law banned literacy tests (reading) used in voting?
a) Civil Rights Act
b) Voting Rights Act
c) Jim Crow Laws
d)

As a result of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed ____ of all the city's public transportation.
a) smoking
b) integration
c) segregation
d)

Which African American refused to give up a seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955?
a) Thurgood Marshall
b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
c) Rosa Parks
d)

In Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that public schools must ________ .
a) segregate
b) integrate
c) close
d)

Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice?
a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
b) Thurgood Marshall
c) Rosa Parks
d)

What did African Americans fight for during the Civil Righs movement?
a) segregation
b) equal rights
c) poll taxes
d)

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