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✊ US Civil Rights Movement 1954–68 – A-level
History · A-level — practises key events, leaders, court cases and laws of the American civil rights struggle
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Questions
The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling overturned which earlier Supreme Court precedent?
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
Sweatt v. Painter (1950)
Shelley v. Kraemer (1948)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
20s
Which president sent federal troops to protect the Little Rock Nine at Central High School in 1957?
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Harry S. Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
20s
Which organisation was formed in December 1955 to run the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Montgomery Improvement Association
Congress of Racial Equality
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
20s
Which organisation was founded in April 1960 at Shaw University, Raleigh, in the wake of the Greensboro sit-ins?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
National Urban League
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Congress of Racial Equality
30s
In his 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' (1963), Martin Luther King was replying to criticism from which group?
SNCC student activists
The Kennedy administration
White Alabama clergymen
Nation of Islam leaders
30s
Which veteran labour leader, who had threatened a march on Washington in 1941, led the planning of the 1963 march?
Roy Wilkins
John Lewis
Whitney Young
A. Philip Randolph
30s
After the 1961 Freedom Rides, which federal body ordered an end to segregation in interstate bus terminals?
The US Supreme Court
The US Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
The Department of Justice
30s
Which body did Title VII of the Civil Rights Act 1964 create to tackle discrimination in employment?
Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department
Fair Employment Practices Committee
Commission on Civil Rights
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
30s
Under the Voting Rights Act 1965, what was the rule that covered states must get federal approval before changing voting rules called?
The coverage formula
Federal examination
Preclearance
Judicial review
30s
After leaving the Nation of Islam in 1964, Malcolm X founded which secular organisation?
Black Panther Party
Universal Negro Improvement Association
Organization of Afro-American Unity
Revolutionary Action Movement
30s