Civil Rights Movement Quiz

This Supreme Court ruled in 1896 that “separate but equal” was legal in this case:

• Brown v. the Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Browder v. Gayle

• Roe v. Wade

These laws legally separated public facilities based on one’s race:

• Equal Rights Laws

• Browder Laws

• Jim Crow Laws

• Ruby Laws

In 1954, the Supreme Court overturned their earlier ruling, declaring that “separate could not be equal.” What was the case?

• Brown v. the Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Browder v. Gayle

• Roe v. Wade

Which of the following best describes Emmett Till:

• A white male teenager who stood up for an African-American girl and was beaten and killed.

• An African-American female who spoke out against racial segregation in the South and sparked the Civil Rights Movement.

• A white girl who befriended an African-American student and taught him to read and write.

• An African-American male was gruesomely murdered after supposedly flirting with a white female.

Which famed musician wrote “The Ballad of Emmett Till” as a way to utilize the media to reach the public?

• Bob Dylan

• Joan Jett

• Creedence Clearwater Revival

• Woodie Guthrie

Which event sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycotts to start just three days later?

• The murder of Emmett Till

• The first sit-in by the Greensboro Four in North Carolina

• The forced integration of the Little Rock Nine into Central HS

• The refusal of Rosa Parks to give up her bus seat

The Greensboro Four staged their first sit-in at...

• The Woolworth Five and Dime Store

• The Farmers Savings and Loan Bank

• The Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas

• The Lunch Counter at the Greensboro McDonald’s

These 13 passengers left Washington DC and traveled into the Deep South to purposely violate segregation laws to protest their existence:

• The Brave 13

• The Freedom Riders

• The Little Rock Nine

• The 13 Pioneers

Prior to Martin Luther King, Jr., this pioneer for civil rights organized a March on Washington in 1941.

• Medgar Evers

• Martin Luther King, Sr.

• James Chaney

• A. Philip Randolph

Known as the Freedom Summer Murders, these three civil rights activists were killed in Neshoba County, Mississippi after helping set up a school to educate African Americans:

• Chaney, Schwerner, and Goodman

• King, Evers, and Parks

• Till, Goodman, and Evers

• King, Evers, and Liouzza