Civil Rights Movement Quiz

Write the letter of the person who best matches each description. Spokesperson for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party at the 1964 Democratic Convention.

• Thurgood Marshall

• James Meredith

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Fannie Lou Hamer

Write the letter of the person who best matches each description. NAACP lawyer who argued the Brown v. Board of Education case before the Supreme Court.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• James Meredith

• Fannie Lou Hamer

• Thurgood Marshall

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

Write the letter of the person who best matches each description. Black Muslim leader who urged blacks to separate from white society.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Malcolm X

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• James Meredith

Write the letter of the person who best matches each description. Civil rights leader and minister who believed deeply in the power of nonviolent protest.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Fannie Lou Hamer

• James Meredith

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Thurgood Marshall

Write the letter of the person who best matches each description. President who demanded that Congress pass a sweeping civil rights law but did not live to see it enacted.

• James Meredith

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Thurgood Marshall

• John F. Kennedy

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

Write the letter of the person who best matches each description. President who appointed a committee to study the causes of urban violence.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• James Meredith

Veteran who became the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi.

Activist whose protest helped spark the Montgomery bus boycott.

President who ordered soldiers to protect African-American students trying to integrate a white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Civil rights leader who became impatient with nonviolence and called for "Black Power."