IB Docs (2) Team
1. Civil Rights movement in the US
Here are multiple choice questions on the Civil Rights movement in the US
Who was 'Jim Crow'?
Which of these states had segregation laws?
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. What had the Supreme court ruled in 1896 (Plessy v Ferguson)?
When was the Ku Klux Klan founded?
Why did the Klan gain more support in the 1950s and 1960s?
Where were Federal troops send in 1957 to enforce a Supreme Court ruling?
Whose actions triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott in December 1955?
What were 'freedom rides'?
How many people were on the Washington March in 1963?
What famous speech to Martin Luther King deliver at Washington in 1963?
Who said, in June 1963, that ‘race has no place in American life or law’?
Which civil rights campaigner said the campaign should use ‘any means necessary’?
The decision to bring forward the Civil Rights Act in 1964 was due to:
Even after the Civil Rights Act had been passed, a black voter in a southern state might be asked to recite the US Constitution. Why?
What was the aim of the ‘Freedom Summer’ of 1964?
What was the key city in Alabahma where civil rights leaders led a campaign against the segregation laws which gained massive publicity for the movement?
Formed after the Montgomery Bus Boycott, led by Martin Luther King, led a failed campaign for civil rights in Albany in 1961.
A radical civil rights group, first founded in 1930 but revived in the 1950s will the involvement of a leader who advocated violence and was himself assassinated in 1965.
The oldest and largest civil rights movement, founded in 1909 in order ‘to advance the interests of coloured citizens’. Won a famous legal victory in 1954.
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