The Civil Rights Movement Quiz

What are civil rights?

• Rights only given to some people

• Rights to buy things

• Rights that all members of a society have to freedom and equal treatment under the law.

• Rights that animals get

When did the Civil Rights movement take place?

• 1990

• 1950's and 1960's

• 2000

• Hundreds of years ago

What is a protest?

• A violent fight

• An unfair event

• People gathering together to play

• Demonstration against something

What does the word SEGREGATED mean?

• Separated or kept apart due to race

• When people come together

• A protest

• People who agree on things

Why was Rosa Parks arrested?

• She hurt others.

• She refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person.

• She refused to play with white people.

• She stole something.

What is a boycott?

• Refusing to eat

• Refusing to sleep

• Refusing to buy or use something in order to make a protest or bring about a change

• A bad idea

Why was school unfair to children during Ruby Bridges' time?

• School was too long.

• Black and white children could play together.

• School wasn't open.

• Black and white children could not go to the same school.

How old was Ruby Bridges when she attended the all-white school?

• 10

• 3

• 6

• 8

What did Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. believe?

• People should fight with fists.

• Black and white people should not be treated the same.

• Black people deserved the same rights as white people.

• White people were bad.

What was the name of Martin Luther King's famous speech?

• I Have a Dream

• I Don't Like This Idea

• I Am Full of Peace

• I Am Cool