Civil Rights Leaders Unit Assessment

Susan B. Anthony wanted the right to

• go to school

• vote

• own her own home

Mary McLeod Bethune devoted her life to

• helping women get jobs

• ending slavery

• providing schools for African Americans

The woman who helped her husband, the president of the United States, during the Great Depression

• Rosa Parks

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Susan B. Anthony

The first African American to play major league baseball was

• Jackie Robinson

• Branch Rickey

• Martin Luther King, Jr

Rosa Parks got in trouble because she

• tried to go to a school for white children

• refused to move and give up her bus seat to a white man

• wanted a job driving a bus

The "I Have a Dream" speech was made by

• Martin Luther King, Jr

• Susan B. Anthony

• Abraham Lincoln

Cesar Chavez fought for higher pay and better working conditions for

• schoolteachers

• migrant workers

• baseball players

Despite facing discrimination and segregation, women such as ________ played important roles in the U.S. space program

• Mary Jackson

• Rosa Parks

• Mary McLeod Bethune

Poet Juan Felipe Herrera was the son of ___________

• migrant workers

• a church minister

• former slaves

The Ponca were able to return to their homeland in Nebraska because of a lawsuit won by

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Cesar Chavez

• Chief Standing Bear