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Chapter 28: The Civil Rights Era

Self-Check Quizzes

1
The lawyer who argued Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas for the NAACP was __________.
A)Clarence Thomas
B)Thurgood Marshall
C)Earl Warren
D)James Joyce
2
President Eisenhower sent soldiers to __________, to ensure the integration of Central High School.
A)Selma, Alabama
B)Memphis, Tennessee
C)Little Rock, Arkansas
D)Montgomery, Alabama
3
Martin Luther King, Jr., was influenced by A. Philip Randolph and __________.
A)Mohandas Gandhi
B)Benjamin Disraeli
C)Siddhartha Gautama
D)Desmond Tutu
4
Who said, "ask not what your country can do for you–ask what you can do for your country"?
A)Lyndon Johnson
B)Richard Nixon
C)Martin Luther King, Jr.
D)John Kennedy
5
President Kennedy was assassinated in __________.
A)Washington, D.C.
B)Dallas, Texas
C)Boston, Massachusetts
D)Los Angeles, California
6
Those who protested against segregated buses were called __________.
A)Sons of Liberty
B)Freedom Riders
C)Solidarity
D)the SCLC
7
The first African American to enroll in the University of Mississippi was __________.
A)Ross Barnett
B)Medgar Evers
C)Ernest Green
D)James Meredith
8
Who organized the march on Washington, D.C., in August 1963 to rally support for the civil rights bill?
A)Jesse Jackson
B)Lyndon Johnson
C)Martin Luther King, Jr.
D)James Farmer
9
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in __________.
A)Dallas
B)Memphis
C)Los Angeles
D)Newark
10
In 1969, a group called ___ took over Alcatraz Island for almost two years.
A)Black Power
B)American Indian Movement
C)NAACP
D)National Congress of American Indians
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