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The Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court Case was intended to address which issue?
a) Civil Rights
b) Integrated Schools
c) Decent Housing
d) Ending Bias

What action led to the desegregation of the United States military?
a) African Americans’ sacrifice during WWII
b) African Americans’ efforts during Reconstruction
c) African Americans’ efforts in factories during WWII
d) African Americans’ sacrifice during the Revolutionary War

What was Civil Rights leader Malcolm X’s belief on achieving equal rights for African Americans?
a) Malcolm X believed in ‘sit-in’ protests to achieve equal rights
b) Malcolm X believed in peaceful marches and boycotts to achieve equal rights
c) Malcolm X believed African Americans should rely on themselves to achieve equal rights
d) Malcolm X believed African Americans should rely on the Southern elite to achieve equal rights

Which of the following governmental acts prohibited discrimination in public places and provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities?
a) Civil Rights Act
b) Homestead Act
c) Voting Rights Act
d) Indian Removal Act

All the following statements are true about Brown vs. Board of Education decision EXCEPT:
a) schools should remain separate but equal
b) schools were to integrate the races
c) school segregation was unconstitutional
d) schools were to desegregate with deliberate speed

Which Civil Rights leader was knows for the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama?
a) Malcolm X
b) Martin Luther King Jr.
c) John F. Kennedy
d) Rosa Parks

What is true about the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
a) it prohibited discrimination in public places
b) it prohibited the integration of public places
c) it made employment discrimination illegal
d) it did all of the above

What is the main difference between the beliefs MLK Jr. and Malcolm X
a) MLK believes you should use violence when necessary and Malcolm X believes in peaceful protests only
b) Malcolm X believes you should use violence when necessary and MLK believes in peaceful protests only
c) MLK believes that we should keep segregation and Malcolm X wants equal rights
d) Malcolm X believes that we should keep segregation and MLK wants equal rights

Brown vs. Board of Education was a famous case heard by the United States Supreme Court in 1954. The court ruled that it is illegal to:
a) Allow children to work long hours in factories
b) Segregate schools based on people’s skin color
c) Pay black people less than white people for similar work
d) Return an escaped slave to his/her master

Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks were part of what movement in the 1950s and 1960s?
a) Anti-Immigration Movement
b) Free Silver Movement
c) Urban Renewal Movement
d) Civil Rights Movement

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