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WorksheetsCivil Rights
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
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Class
Date
1.
All of the following were reasons for why the Montgomery Bus Boycott was an effective protest EXCEPT:
a)
Rosa Parks was arrested.
b)
The bus company lost lots of money.
c)
African Americans stopped riding the bus for over a year
d)
The Supreme Court ruled bus segregation unconstitutional
2.
Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP used the legal system and court cases to challenge _________ African Americans.
a)
discrimination against
b)
preferential treatment of
c)
integration of
d)
accusations of disloyalty against
3.
The most significant legal change after the Supreme Court ruled on Brown v. the Board of Education was:
a)
Linda Brown was able to go to the University of Alabama.
b)
Membership in the KKK escalated violence in retaliation.
c)
Segregation on public transportation was outlawed.
d)
The end to legal public school segregation based on the principle of separate but equal schools
4.
Which of the following is an example of the concept of integration:
a)
White people sitting in the front of the bus and black people sitting in the back of the bus.
b)
African Americans workings as maids in white homes.
c)
Jackie Robinson joining a Major League Baseball team.
d)
MLK, Jr. speaking with President Kennedy about civil rights issues.
5.
What do all of the following have in common: Martin Luther King, Jr, Jackie Robinson, and Rosa Parks?
a)
They all involve marching.
b)
They all involve not paying for a service.
c)
They all involve the use of non-violence to accomplish a goal.
d)
They all involve public speaking.
6.
Why did leaders of the SCLC decide to form SNCC?
a)
To get white citizens to join as members
b)
To get the black youth involved
c)
To make the movement nonviolent
d)
To give nationally televised speeches
7.
All of the following are reasons why groups such as CORE and the SCLC were effective EXCEPT:
a)
They used extreme measures such as forcefully taking over businesses to get on the news regularly.
b)
They had nationally well-known and respected leaders.
c)
They were well organized.
d)
They conducted many non-violent protests.
8.
Who is this?
a)
Huey Newton
b)
Muhammad Ali
c)
Malcolm X
d)
Elijah Muhammed
9.
Who is this?
a)
Stokely Carmichael
b)
Emmett Till
c)
Thurgood Marshall
d)
Medgar Evers
10.
Which slain civil rights leader said "You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea"?
a)
Medgar Evers
b)
Thurgood Marshall
c)
Malcolm X
d)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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