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WorksheetsGA Civil Rights Movement
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 19mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
An African American women who was asked to give up her seat on the bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama was
a)
Harriet B. Stowe
b)
Rosa Parks
c)
Michelle Obama
d)
Coretta King
2.
Brown vs. Board of Education was a famous case heard by the United States Supreme Court in 1954. The court ruled that it is illegal to:
a)
Allow children to work long hours in factories
b)
Segregate schools based on people’s skin color
c)
Pay black people less than white people for similar work
d)
Return an escaped slave to his/her master
3.
Martin Luther King Jr gave the famous “I Have A Dream” speech at what event?
a)
Freedom Rides
b)
Montgomery Bus Boycott
c)
March on Washington
d)
March from Selma to Montgomery
4.
How was the Montgomery Bus Boycott effective?
a)
It gave free transportation to African Americans
b)
It segregated buses in America
c)
It made Rosa Parks lots of money
d)
It helped de-segregate buses in America
5.
What are Civil Rights?
a)
Rights that only some citizens get
b)
Rights that all citizens get
c)
Rights that are civil
d)
Rights that are controlled by the president
6.
Martin Luther King Jr believed in
a)
Violent protests
b)
Really loud protests
c)
Non-violent protests
d)
Violence when needed protests
7.
Rosa Parks was arrested here when she refused to give up her seat on the bus. Also the site of a major bus boycott.
a)
Atlanta, GA
b)
Montgomery, AL
c)
Washington, D.C.
d)
Savannah, GA
8.
Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks were part of what movement in the 1950s and 1960s?
a)
Anti-Immigration Movement
b)
Free Silver Movement
c)
Urban Renewal Movement
d)
Civil Rights Movement
9.
This law banned all literacy tests that kept many African Americans from voting.
a)
Civil Rights Act
b)
Voting Rights Act
c)
Civil Rights Movement
d)
24th Amendment
10.
This law banned discrimination of any American because of race, gender, or religion.
a)
Voting Rights Act
b)
Civil Rights Act
c)
15th Amendment
d)
Civil Rights Movement
11.
How did newspapers and media play a role in the Civil Rights Movement?
a)
They showed how great Jim Crow laws were
b)
They showed how unfair Jim Crow laws were and helped convince people to join the Civil Rights Movement
c)
They made a lot of money following Martin Luther King Jr.
d)
All of the above
12.
White supremacists of the South supported _______ of public schools
a)
desegregation
b)
segregation
c)
integration
13.
Which of the following people refused to open his restaurant doors to blacks and desegregate his business?
a)
Benjamin E. Mays
b)
Eugene Talmadge
c)
Lester Maddox
d)
Maynard Jackson
14.
Who was the first black man to be elected mayor of Atlanta in 1973?
a)
Andrew Young
b)
John Lewis
c)
MLK Jr.
d)
Maynard Jackson
15.
These people would be supported by white supremacists and segregationists
a)
Lester Maddox and MLK Jr.
b)
Lester Maddox and Herman Talmadge
c)
John Lewis and Andrew Young
d)
Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson
16.
This group was founded by MLK Jr. to bring all black churches together in peaceful resistance and push for equal rights
a)
SNCC
b)
SCLC
c)
SCUY
d)
SCBC
17.
This group was founded by students and young people to promote non-violent methods to end inequality (sit-ins, freedom rides)
a)
SNCC
b)
SCLC
c)
SCUY
18.
What was the outcome of the Albany movement in 1961?
a)
Many white supremacists killed hundreds of freedom riders
b)
All of the public schools in Southwest GA were integrated
c)
Many protesters were arrested - lessons learned, however.
19.
Restaurant sit-ins and freedom rides throughout the south are examples of actions made by...
a)
SCLC
b)
Maynard Jackson's group of friends
c)
SNCC
d)
SCUY
20.
Why did the GA legislators push for the Confederate flag to be placed on 1956 state flag?
a)
To promote integration in schools
b)
To strengthen relationships between blacks and whites
c)
To honor GA's history
d)
Many believe it was to protest the Brown v. BOE decision
21.
What group was formed as a result of Brown v. Board of Education?
a)
NAACP
b)
Sibley Commission
c)
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
d)
March on Washington
22.
What were the results of the Sibley Commission?
a)
60% would rather shut down schools
b)
40% were happy to integrate
c)
80% suggested to change the state flag
d)
10% wanted to appeal the court's decision
23.
How did Albany contribute to the Civil Rights Movement?
a)
It was a mass effort to desegregate a city
b)
It was where the first school desegregated
c)
MLK was killed there
d)
The SCLC was formed there
24.
Why would MLK support the efforts of the SNCC?
a)
they practiced nonviolent protest
b)
they supported segregation
c)
they helped host the March on Washington
d)
they passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
25.
Which of the following were mayors of Georgia?
a)
Maynard Jackson
b)
William B. Hartsfield
c)
Andrew Young
d)
all answers are correct
26.
Which supreme court case ENDED segregation?
a)
Plessy vs Freguson
b)
Gideon vs Wainwright
c)
Brown vs Board of Education
d)
Atkins vs Virginia
27.
What is the social separation of the races?
a)
discrimination
b)
segregation
c)
integration
d)
racial profiling
28.
Unfair treatment based on prejudice against a certain group is called what?
a)
discrimination
b)
segregation
c)
integration
d)
racial profiling
29.
Another name for southern segregation laws?
a)
Jim Crow
b)
persist
c)
sit-ins
d)
racial profiling
30.
Who expressed his hope for equality in his "I Have a Dream Speech"?
a)
Malcolm X
b)
John F Kennedy
c)
Dr. Martin L King Jr
d)
Don King
31.
Which of the following was a result of the Civil Rights Movement?
a)
de facto segregation ended in the North
b)
the federal government rebuilt the nation's ghettos in large cities
c)
thousands of African Americans could vote for the first time
d)
racism in the South came to a complete end
32.
Which of the following outlawed the requirement that "would be" voters take Literacy test to qualify to vote?
a)
Voting Rights Act of 1965
b)
Little Rock Central Nine
c)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
d)
Montgomery Bus Boycott
33.
Blacks in Alabama boycott city buses until they could sit where they want was known as what?
a)
Little Rock Central Nine
b)
Jim Crow Laws
c)
Freedom Riders
d)
Montgomery Bus Boycott
34.
Which Civil Rights leader led the March on Washington in August of 1963
a)
Rosa Parks
b)
Medgar Evers
c)
Malcolm X
d)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
35.
Which of the following said facilities could be separate as as they were equal
a)
Brown v. Bd of Education
b)
Plessy v. Ferguson
36.
Which president used the phrase "we shall overcome" as he signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965
a)
Truman
b)
Eisenhower
c)
Kennedy
d)
Johnson
37.
Person who was killed on April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony outside his hotel room at Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee after trying to help black sanitation workers receive better working conditions
a)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
b)
Robert Kennedy
38.
In 1964, Martin received the _____________ for peace.
a)
Nobel Prize
b)
Oscar Award
39.
A form of nonviolent protest where people stop buying a product?
a)
march
b)
boycott
c)
sit in
d)
activist
40.
Who was the first president of the SNCC?
a)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
b)
Malcom X
c)
John Lewis
d)
Andrew Young
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