Starter quiz

  • The ______ laws enforced segregation in American society in every southern state and some northern states
    • 'Jim Crow' ✓
  • Which court case in 1896 ruled that segregation was legal so long as it was ‘separate but equal’?
    • Plessy v Ferguson  ✓
    • Brown v Topeka
    • grandfather clause
  • Place the events of the civil rights movement in order, starting with the earliest.
    • 2
      ⇔
      Brown V Topeka
    • 3
      ⇔
      The start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
    • 4
      ⇔
      Little Rock
    • 5
      ⇔
      Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Crusade for Citizenship
  • Which of the following groups opposed the 1957 Civil Rights Act?
    • the White Citizens Council (WCC)  ✓
    • the Ku Klux Klan  ✓
    • southern Democrats  ✓
  • Which of the following statements accurately describes what happened when Elizabeth Eckford turned up at Little Rock High alone?
    • She was able to walk into the school
    • She faced the National Guard  ✓
    • She faced an angry crowd calling for her to by lyched  ✓
  • In which of the following civil rights events was Martin Luther King Jr involved?
    • The SCLCs ‘Crusade for Citizenship'  ✓
    • Meetings with Eisenhower that led to the passing of the 1957 Civil Rights Act  ✓
    • Leading the the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA)  ✓
    • Founding the NAACP
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