6 Written Questions

1. This was a young girl who was not allowed to go to the neighborhood public school. They had a ruling known as Brown vs. Board of Education.
2. system of producing and distributing goods
3. After the Communist dictator ___________ overthrew the government of Cuba in 1959, several hundred thousand Cubans sought political and economic freedom in the US?
4. This was a young man from a sharecropper's farm in Georgia, signed on as a player for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 and became the first black major league baseball player?
5. Black Supreme Court Justice who stressed the importance of moral character?
6. In the early 1950's, ________________developed the polio vaccine, ending the spread of that dreaded disease.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the age of six, _______________, displayed such talent as a member of the choir in Philadelphia's Union Baptist Church that the church established a trust fund to pay for her professional training? She was the first black American to be a performing member of the Metropolitan Opera?
   1. Marian Anderson
   2. Linda Brown
   3. Jackie Robinson
   4. Fidel Castro
2. When was Jackie Robinson elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame?
   1. Hispanic
   2. Rosa Parks
   3. 1962
   4. economy
3. A new form of entertainment, ___________, became popular in the 1950's?
   1. Linda Brown
   2. Fidel Castro
   3. Puerto Rico
   4. television
4. By 1955, this was a young black minister and he had helped organize both the Montgomery bus boycott and a civil rights campaign that soon spread nationwide? Also gave the famous "I have a dream" speech?
   1. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
   2. Marian Anderson
   3. Jackie Robinson
   4. Dr. Jonas Salk
5. Congress passed legislation that guaranteed voting, housing, and job rights for ethnic minorities. This legislation became known as the ________________?
   1. 1964 Civil Rights Act
   2. civil rights movement
   3. Puerto Rico
   4. Jackie Robinson

5 True/False Questions

1. civil rights movement → Congress passed legislation that guaranteed voting, housing, and job rights for ethnic minorities. This legislation became known as the ________________?

   True        False

2. Hispanic → Just a year after the Supreme Court's important decision, ____________, a black American woman in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. This was a violation of the city's segregation laws, and she got arrested.

   True        False

3. Puerto Rico → system of producing and distributing goods

   True        False

4. Rosa Parks → The fastest growing and possibly the largest minority ethnic group in the US is the Spanish-speaking, or ___________ Americans?

   True        False

5. The greatest opera singers of the age → In 1939 Marian Anderson was recognized through out Europe as one of what?

   True        False