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Civil Rights Movement Quiz
December 24, 2020
</p> <section> <h2>Rediscovering America: Civil Rights Movement Quiz</h2> <p>Martin Luther King Jr. Day became a public holiday in 1983 after President Ronald Reagan signed the legislation establishing it.</p> <p> </p> <p>The quiz below, from the <a href="www.ashbrook.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ashbrook Center</a> at Ashland University in Ohio, provides an opportunity for you to test your knowledge of the Rev. King and the modern civil rights movement, which took shape in the 1950s and 1960s when a confluence of social and economic factors enabled political change.</p> </section> <section> <h2>In what well-known sermon did the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. suggest “withdrawing economic support” from businesses to obtain fair treatment?</h2> </section> <section> <h3>In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson held a White House conference on civil rights. Which African-American civil rights activist was the conference’s honorary chairman?</h3> </section> <section> <h3>Who was convicted of assassinating Martin Luther King Jr.?</h3> </section> <section> <h3>Which of the following civil rights activists was not assassinated?</h3> </section> <section> <h3>Martin Luther King Jr. was the author of which book or books?</h3> </section> <section> <h3>In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education that segregation in public schools was illegal. Appeals of cases from what five U.S. locations were combined into one case by the justices?</h3> </section> <section> <h3>What future Supreme Court justice argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court?</h3> </section> <section> <h3>After refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, civil rights activist Rosa Parks inspired African-Americans to boycott public buses for more than a year in what city?</h3> </section> <section> <h3>Time magazine said the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 bore which senator’s “handiwork more than anyone else’s.”</h3> </section> <section> <h3>Which musician did not perform at the 1963 March on Washington (for Jobs and Freedom), where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech?</h3> </section> <section></section> <section></section> <section></section> <section></section> <section></section> <section></section> <section></section> <section></section> <section></section> <section></section> <p> </p> <p>
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