POP QUIZ ( Civil rights events in the '50s and '60s)

In commemoration of the birth of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., match the event of the civil rights era with the year it occurred.

1. Congress passes the Civil Rights Act.
2. Congress passes the Voting Rights Act.
3. Freedom Rides begin from Washington into Southern States.
4. The Poor People's March on Washington.
5. President Dwight Eisenhower sends troops to Little Rock, Ark., to ensure nine black students are admitted to the high school.
6. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech before hundreds of thousands in Washington.
7. Rosa Parks refuses to move to the back of a Montgomery, Ala., bus, sparking a 13-month bus boycott.
8. The sit-in movement is launched by four black college students at a lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C.
9. Thurgood Marshall is the first African American named to the U.S. Supreme Court.
10. The U.S. Supreme Court declares school segregation unconstitutional.

a) 1954             f) 1963
b) 1955             g) 1964
c) 1957             h) 1965
d) 1960             i) 1967
e) 1961             j) 1968


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Answers : 1. g  ; 2. h  ; 3. e  ; 4. j  ; 5. c  ; 6. f  ; 7. b  ; 8. d  ; 9. i  ; 10. a