Question 1
Which activist's arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat helped spark a major boycott in Alabama in 1955?
- Rosa Parks
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- Ida B. Wells
- Claudette Colvin
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Rosa Parks
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US Civil Rights Movement trivia quiz
US Civil Rights Movement trivia, played live: seven rounds, ten seconds a question. QuizDown has over 120 US Civil Rights Movement questions, from easy to expert, and you’re matched with a real player who gets the same seven.
What the US Civil Rights Movement questions cover
- School Desegregation
- Voting Rights
- Freedom Rides
- Black Power
- Federal Law
- Freedom Summer
- March on Washington
- Student Activism
- Voting Rights Act
- Albany Movement
- Birmingham
- Birmingham Campaign
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Question 2
Which leader delivered the famous "I Have a Dream" speech during a 1963 gathering in the nation's capital?
- Thurgood Marshall
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Malcolm X
- Medgar Evers
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Question 3
What 1954 Supreme Court ruling declared that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional?
- Dred Scott v. Sandford
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Miranda v. Arizona
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Brown v. Board of Education
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