Events of Civil Rights Movement

Events of Civil Rights Movement

9th - 12th Grade

8 Qs

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Events of Civil Rights Movement

Events of Civil Rights Movement

Assessment

Quiz

Social Studies

9th - 12th Grade

Easy

Created by

Keyla Sanchez

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8 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why did Linda Brown want to go to the all-white school instead of the all-black school?

Because it was closer to her house

Because her best friend went there


Because she thought there were aliens abducting people from the other one

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why did Emmitt Till's mother make her son's funeral an open-casket one and allow photographers to take pictures of the body, despite the fact that it was horribly maimed?

She just didn't think of the consequences

So the world could see what happened to Emmitt

For the publicity $$$

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How did the Montgomery Bus Boycott pressure bus companies into changing their segregation policy?

Brought public embarrassment of being racist

Deprived them of money from black customers

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why did President Eisenhower order the Army and the National guard to go to Little Rock, Arkansas?

Why did President Eisenhower order the Army and the National guard to go to Little Rock, Arkansas?

To stop black students from attending Little Rock High School

To fight the communists in Little Rock

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which word means to separate into groups?

integrate

segregate

inclusion

organize

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What did the arrest of Rosa Parks lead to?


school integration


boycott of city buses

riots in Birmingham

civil rights movement

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Woolworth’s Sit-In movement aimed to challenge:

Voting restrictions

Segregation in public accommodations

Housing discrimination

Unequal pay in the workforce

8.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education stated that:


Segregation in schools was constitutional if facilities were equal

Segregation in public schools was unconstitutional

Private schools could not discriminate based on race

Only colleges and universities had to integrate