Chapter 6.3 Pages 208 to 213

1) The NAACPʹs first target in its efforts to overturn Jim Crow laws and Plessy v. Ferguson was
segregation in
A) restaurants.
B) vocational schools.
C) professional and graduate schools.
D) transportation.
E) the workforce.

2) American citizens who are members of which of the following groups are not currently
guaranteed the right to vote?
A) the physically disabled
B) Hispanics
C) twenty-year-olds
D) convicted felons
E) Everyone listed above is constitutionally guaranteed the right to vote.

3) The 1954 Supreme Court decision that overturned Plessy was
A) the Sweatt case.
B) Missouri v. Gaines.
C) McLaurin v. Oklahoma.
D) Brown v. Board of Education.
E) Cooper v. Aaron.

4) In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court determined that
A) schools must ensure a racial mix equal to that of the surrounding community.
B) the doctrine of ʺseparate but equalʺ has no place in public education.
C) Curt Muller could attend the University of Oklahoma and sit in the classroom with the
rest of the students.
D) school bussing is patently unconstitutional.
E) African American children could attend any school they wanted to.

5) What was the immediate response of the South to the Supreme Courtʹs decision in Brown v.
Board of Education?
A) The South immediately complied with the spirit of the Court decision because they were
eager to put the whole affair behind them.
B) The South erupted in jubilation due to their victory at the Supreme Court.
C) The South reluctantly complied with the Courtʹs mandate, although they complained
about it relentlessly.
D) The South did everything within its power to avoid implementing the Courtʹs decision.
E) The South complied with both the letter and the spirit of the Supreme Courtʹs decision.

6) In 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott began with the intent of ending segregation on public
transport. Who acted as a catalyst for the boycott by refusing to give up her seat on the bus to
a white passenger?
A) Rosa Parks
B) Linda Brown
C) W.E.B. DuBois
D) Susan B. Anthony
E) Elizabeth Cady Stanton

7) What was the new strategy for expanding African-American civil rights that was first
employed in the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
A) legislation
B) litigation
C) nonviolent protest
D) civil unrest
E) extraordinary renditions

8) Who was a leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the head of the Montgomery
Improvement Association?
A) Martin Luther King, Jr.
B) Seneca Falls
C) Rosa Parks
D) Linda Brown
E) Malcolm X

9) Attempts to focus attention on segregated bus facilities in the South were known as
A) sit-ins.
B) love-fests.
C) tickets to ride.
D) the Equality Express.
E) freedom rides.

10) In August 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. led a huge march on Washington that culminated in
A) the arrest of thousands of marchers by the D.C. police.
B) the brutal beatings of African Americans by D.C. residents.
C) Kingʹs ʺI Have a Dreamʺ speech.
D) the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
E) wide scale rioting in black neighborhoods around the country.