Chapter 12-Civil Rights Movement Quiz

1.The United States’ Civil Rights Movement included boycotts, protests, and sit-ins.

• True
• False

2. The state of Alabama was in the center (was a major part) of the Civil Rights Movement.

• True
• False

3.Governor George Wallace stood in the entrance door to the University of Alabama to welcome its first black students in 1963.

• True
• False

4.The Alabama Constitution of 1901 had voting requirements that made it hard for poor whites and blacks to vote.

• True
• False

5.The U.S. surgeon general appointed by President Obama is a black man from Bayou La Batre.

• True
• False

6.Vivian Malone was the first black female to graduate from the University of Alabama.

• True
• False

7.Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

• True
• False

8.The Voting Rights Act was written in 1965.

• True
• False

9.Today citizens of all races can vote, and schools are integrated.

• True
• False

10.Many people made sacrifices, and many lost their lives to achieve racial civil rights.

• True
• False