Early Steps in the Civil Rights Movement: The 1940s and 1950s

Question 1

Multiple choice
  • Harry S. Truman

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • John F. Kennedy

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 2

Multiple choice
  • To provide legal assistance to African Americans

  • To challenge segregation using nonviolent protests

  • To lobby for the passage of civil rights legislation

  • To promote black nationalism and self-reliance

Question 3

Multiple choice
  • All forms of racial segregation were unconstitutional

  • Segregation on public buses was unconstitutional

  • The 'separate but equal' doctrine was acceptable in public education

  • Racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional

Question 4

Multiple choice
  • It desegregated the military

  • It declared that all public facilities must be desegregated

  • It established the Fair Employment Practices Committee

  • It outlawed discrimination in the housing market

Question 5

Multiple choice
  • The integration of Central High School in Little Rock

  • The founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

  • The arrest of Rosa Parks in Montgomery, Alabama

  • The Greensboro sit-ins

Question 6

Multiple choice
  • Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Roy Wilkins

  • Malcolm X

  • Thurgood Marshall

Question 7

Multiple choice
  • Marked the emergence of Martin Luther King Jr. as a national civil rights leader

  • Led to the desegregation of buses nationwide

  • Was the first successful use of nonviolent protest in the civil rights movement

  • Resulted in the Civil Rights Act of 1957

Question 8

Multiple choice
  • To challenge segregation laws in the southern states through lawsuits

  • To defend African Americans who were wrongly accused of crimes

  • To promote voter registration among African Americans in the South

  • To coordinate and support nonviolent direct action against segregation

Teach with AI superpowers

Why teachers love Class Companion

Import assignments to get started in no time.

Create your own rubric to customize the AI feedback to your liking.

Overrule the AI feedback if a student disputes.

Other U.S. History Assignments

10/4: Foreign Policy in the Early Republic10/4: Foreign Policy in the Early Republic11.1 Colonial Foundations11.2 CONSTITUTIONAL FOUNDATIONS (1763 – 1824)11.2 Reliability - Declaration of Independence11.2 Reliability - Declaration of Independence11.3 Reliability - Monroe Doctrine1 - 4.6 (a) Market Revolution: Society and Culture1 - 4.6 (b) Market Revolution: Society and Culture1 - 4.8 (a) Jackson and Federal Power1 - 4.8 (b) Jackson and Federal Power1 - 4.8 (c) Jackson and Federal Power14th & 15th Amendments 1865-18771920s and 30s Short Answer Practice1920s: Cultural and Political Controversies1920s Cultural Developments1920s DBQ1920s SAQ1950s conformity19th c. African American Experience DBQ19th Century Immigration and Economic Growth in the United States19th Century Industrialists: Captains of Industry or Robber Barons2000 DBQ: Organized Labor's Success in Improving Workers' Position (1875-1900)2006 AP United States History Free-Response Questions20s, 30's WWII- Essay 12.2 - Puritan Settlement of Massachusetts Bay2.3 Comparing the British Colonial Regions2.3 European Colonization - Map SAQ2.3 Geography of British Colonial Regions2 - 4.6 (a) Market Revolution: Society and Culture2 - 4.6 (b) Market Revolution: Society and Culture2 - 4.6 (c) Market Revolution: Society and Culture2 - 4.8 (a) Jackson and Federal Power2 - 4.8 (b) Jackson and Federal Power2 - 4.8 (c) Jackson and Federal Power2.5 - British and French Interactions with Native Americans2.5 Gary Nash - Red, White, and Black Excerpt2nd Dilemma--Advice to President Adams: Response to Tribute Demands3.10- American Foreign Policy (1789-1800)3.2 The Seven Years' War - Territorial Changes3.6 - Historians on women and the American Revolution3.6 - Historians on women and the American Revolution3.6- Interpretations of the American Revolution3.7(a) Articles of Confederation3.7(b) Articles of Confederation3.7 Understanding the Articles of Confederation3.7 Understanding the Articles of Confederation - Option C3.8 Articles to Consitution3.8- Founding Fathers' Leadership and the Ratification of the Constitution3.8 - Historians on the U.S. Constitution