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WorksheetsCivil Rights
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
African American lawyer who led the legal challenge against segregation
Thurgood Marshall
Earl Warren
John Kennedy
Roger B. Taney
Supreme Court cases in which segregated schools were ruled unconstitutional
Brown V. Board of Education
Plessy V. Ferguson
Munn V. Illinois
Dred Scott. V. Sanford
Woman who helped start Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks
Fannie Lou Hamer
Maya Angelou
Linda Brown
Peaceful leader of the Civil Rights Movement
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcom X
James Meredith
Stokely Carmichael
Civil rights organization created by MLK, ministers, and civil rights leaders
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Comittee
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Congress on Racial Equality
Civil rights organization formed by students
Student Non violent Coordiating Committee
Student Congress on Racial Equality
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Council of Student Advocates
protest tactic in which blacks occupied whites only seats at lunch counters
Sit In
March
Radical Protest
Core
civil rights activists who tried to end segregation on national buses
Freedom Riders
Council of Federated Organizations
Leadership Federation of Colored Citizens
Freedom Fighters
African American who won enrollment to the all white University of Mississippi
James Meredith
Stokely Carmichael
Linda Brown
Elizabeth Eckford
law that outlawed ration discrimination
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil Rights act of 1968
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Dejure Segregation
name of project to win voting rights for Southern blacks
Freedom Summer
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Freedom Riders
March on Washington
Spokeswoman of Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; civil rights advocate
Fannie Lou Hammer
Rosa Parks
Elizabeth Eckford
Hazel Bryan
Act that struck down state laws intended to keep blacks from voting
Voting Rights Act of 1965
De jure segregation
de facto segregation
segregation by custom or practice
De Facto Segregation
De Jure Segregation
segregation by law
De Jure segregation
De Facto Segregation
African American civil rights leader; used violence
Malcom X
Martin Luther King Jr.
Phillip Randolph
James Meredith
Group headed by Elijah Muhammad
Nation of Islam
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee
Congress of Racial Equiality
Leader of black power movement
Stokely Carmichael
Martin Luther King Jr.
Earl Warren
Thurgood Marshall
movement that stressed black pride
Black Power
Voting Rights act
Freedom riders
Separate but equal
African American group founded to combat police brutality
Black Panthers
Board of Selma
Little Rock Nine
NAACP
Commission that reported on race relations in America
Kerner Commission
Commission of Enfranchisement
Racial Equality Board of Affairs
Act that banned discrimination in housing
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Civil Rights act of 1964
Affirmative Action
Voting Rights act of 1965
program that aimed at hiring or including minorities
Affirmative Action
NAACP
SNCC
CORE
In 1961, ____________ was the MOST racially violent and most segregated city in the United States.
Birmingham
Montgomery
Baton Rouge
Dallas
Photographer who believed that things could be changed if the struggle for equality was shown.
Ernest Withers
James Meredith
Fannie Lou Hamer
Elizabeth Eckford
Martin Luther King Delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech during a march in this city.
Washington D.C.
Montgomery
Birmingham
Selma
Which of the following was NOT a staple in a Black Panther's wardrobe?
Black Berets
Sunglasses
Black Leather
Studded boots
The Civil Rights Act of 1968 ended discrimination in ______.
Housing
Hiring
The Army
Schools
Brown V. Board of Education was won by which Civil Rights Lawyer?
Thurgood Marshall
Gloria Allred
Jack Greenberg
Robert Kennedy
The Little Rock Nine were supported by the School Superintendent, but were challenged by:
President Eisenhower
President Kennedy
Governor Faubus
NAACP Lawyer Thurgood Marshall
