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WorksheetsThe Civil Rights Movement
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
In what city did the Children's Crusade take place?
a)
Montgomery
b)
Selma
c)
Birmingham
d)
Anniston
2.
Arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man in Montgomery, AL
a)
Martin Luther King Jr.
b)
Malcolm X
c)
John Lewis
d)
Rosa Parks
3.
Founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination, to oppose racism and to gain civil rights for African Americans; promoted equality, especially legally.
a)
NAACP
b)
CORE
c)
SCLS
d)
MIA
4.
A case that was brought to supreme court by black lawsuits to challenge the legality of segregation. The court ruled that segregation was legal as long as it was "equal"; ESTABLISHED 'SEPARATE BUT EQUAL'
a)
Brown vs. Board of Education
b)
Plessy vs. Ferguson
c)
Boynton vs. Virginia
d)
Miranda vs. Arizona
5.
Court case that declared segregation in schools unconstitutional.
a)
Boynton vs. Virginia
b)
Plessy vs. Ferguson
c)
Brown vs. Board of Education
d)
Miranda vs. Arizona
6.
Southern states and local governments passed these laws in order to segregate blacks and whites in public and private facilities.
a)
Jim Crow Laws
b)
Segregation Laws
c)
Separate Laws
d)
John Riley Laws
7.
Act outlawed major forms of racial and sexist discrimination. Intended to end unequal voting registration and school segregation.
a)
Civil Rights ACT of 1954
b)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
c)
Civil Rights Act of 1974
d)
Civil Rights Act of 1984
8.
Challenged the law of the desegregation of interstate busing by traveling through the South.
a)
Black Panthers
b)
Freedom Riders
c)
NAACP
d)
SNCC
9.
Basic rights, privileges and protections which belong in principle to every citizen of the U.S.
a)
Segregation Rights
b)
Civil Rights
10.
U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader; he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations.
a)
Henry David Thoreau
b)
Malcolm X
c)
Martin Luther King Jr.
d)
James Meredith
11.
President in 1960's who pushed through the Civil Rights act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
a)
Lyndon Johnson
b)
John F. Kennedy
12.
Court case that was finalized saying that the separate but equal law, did not violate the 14th amendment; this made segregation legal in the South.
a)
Plessy vs. Ferguson
b)
Boynton vs. Virginia
c)
Brown vs. Board of Education
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