Civil Rights Advances in the United States Quiz

Explore pivotal moments & figures in US Civil Rights history with these challenging questions. How well do you know the struggle for equality?

#1

Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all people born or naturalized in the United States?

First Amendment
Second Amendment
Thirteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
#2

Who was the prominent leader of the civil rights movement who delivered the famous 'I Have a Dream' speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963?

Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr.
Rosa Parks
Thurgood Marshall
#3

Which legislation enacted in 1965 aimed to overcome legal barriers preventing African Americans from exercising their right to vote?

Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Fair Housing Act
Equal Pay Act
#4

Which African American woman refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Fannie Lou Hamer
Ella Baker
Rosa Parks
Dorothy Height
#5

Which civil rights organization, founded in 1909, aimed to eliminate racial discrimination and promote equality for African Americans?

Black Panther Party
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
#6

Which event marked the beginning of the modern civil rights movement in the United States?

The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Brown v. Board of Education ruling
The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Little Rock Nine
#7

Who was the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States?

Thurgood Marshall
Clarence Thomas
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Sonia Sotomayor
#8

Which landmark Supreme Court case declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional?

Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
Gideon v. Wainwright
Marbury v. Madison
#9

Who was the leader of the Nation of Islam and a prominent advocate for African American empowerment and separatism during the civil rights era?

Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
Stokely Carmichael
Eldridge Cleaver
#10

Who was the civil rights leader who organized and led the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965 to protest voter registration discrimination and promote voting rights for African Americans?

Rosa Parks
John Lewis
Fannie Lou Hamer
Ella Baker
#11

Which civil rights activist co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and was a key figure in organizing nonviolent resistance to racial segregation?

Medgar Evers
Malcolm X
Bayard Rustin
John Lewis

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