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Civil Rights

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

African American lawyer who led the legal challenge against segregation

a)

Thurgood Marshall

b)

Earl Warren

c)

John Kennedy

d)

Roger B. Taney

2.

Supreme Court cases in which segregated schools were ruled unconstitutional

a)

Brown V. Board of Education

b)

Plessy V. Ferguson

c)

Munn V. Illinois

d)

Dred Scott. V. Sanford

3.

Woman who helped start Montgomery Bus Boycott

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Fannie Lou Hamer

c)

Maya Angelou

d)

Linda Brown

4.

Peaceful leader of the Civil Rights Movement

a)

Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

Malcom X

c)

James Meredith

d)

Stokely Carmichael

5.

Civil rights organization created by MLK, ministers, and civil rights leaders

a)

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

b)

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Comittee

c)

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

d)

Congress on Racial Equality

6.

Civil rights organization formed by students

a)

Student Non violent Coordiating Committee

b)

Student Congress on Racial Equality

c)

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

d)

Council of Student Advocates

7.

protest tactic in which blacks occupied whites only seats at lunch counters

a)

Sit In

b)

March

c)

Radical Protest

d)

Core

8.

civil rights activists who tried to end segregation on national buses

a)

Freedom Riders

b)

Council of Federated Organizations

c)

Leadership Federation of Colored Citizens

d)

Freedom Fighters

9.

African American who won enrollment to the all white University of Mississippi

a)

James Meredith

b)

Stokely Carmichael

c)

Linda Brown

d)

Elizabeth Eckford

10.

law that outlawed ration discrimination

a)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

b)

Civil Rights act of 1968

c)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

d)

Dejure Segregation

11.

name of project to win voting rights for Southern blacks

a)

Freedom Summer

b)

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

c)

Freedom Riders

d)

March on Washington

12.

Spokeswoman of Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; civil rights advocate

a)

Fannie Lou Hammer

b)

Rosa Parks

c)

Elizabeth Eckford

d)

Hazel Bryan

13.

Act that struck down state laws intended to keep blacks from voting

a)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

b)

De jure segregation

c)

de facto segregation

14.

segregation by custom or practice

a)

De Facto Segregation

b)

De Jure Segregation

15.

segregation by law

a)

De Jure segregation

b)

De Facto Segregation

16.

African American civil rights leader; used violence

a)

Malcom X

b)

Martin Luther King Jr.

c)

Phillip Randolph

d)

James Meredith

17.

Group headed by Elijah Muhammad

a)

Nation of Islam

b)

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

c)

Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee

d)

Congress of Racial Equiality

18.

Leader of black power movement

a)

Stokely Carmichael

b)

Martin Luther King Jr.

c)

Earl Warren

d)

Thurgood Marshall

19.

movement that stressed black pride

a)

Black Power

b)

Voting Rights act

c)

Freedom riders

d)

Separate but equal

20.

African American group founded to combat police brutality

a)

Black Panthers

b)

Board of Selma

c)

Little Rock Nine

d)

NAACP

21.

Commission that reported on race relations in America

a)

Kerner Commission

b)

Commission of Enfranchisement

c)

Racial Equality Board of Affairs

22.

Act that banned discrimination in housing

a)

Civil Rights Act of 1968

b)

Civil Rights act of 1964

c)

Affirmative Action

d)

Voting Rights act of 1965

23.

program that aimed at hiring or including minorities

a)

Affirmative Action

b)

NAACP

c)

SNCC

d)

CORE

24.

In 1961, ____________ was the MOST racially violent and most segregated city in the United States.

a)

Birmingham

b)

Montgomery

c)

Baton Rouge

d)

Dallas

25.

Photographer who believed that things could be changed if the struggle for equality was shown.

a)

Ernest Withers

b)

James Meredith

c)

Fannie Lou Hamer

d)

Elizabeth Eckford

26.

Martin Luther King Delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech during a march in this city.

a)

Washington D.C.

b)

Montgomery

c)

Birmingham

d)

Selma

27.

Which of the following was NOT a staple in a Black Panther's wardrobe?

a)

Black Berets

b)

Sunglasses

c)

Black Leather

d)

Studded boots

28.

The Civil Rights Act of 1968 ended discrimination in ______.

a)

Housing

b)

Hiring

c)

The Army

d)

Schools

29.

Brown V. Board of Education was won by which Civil Rights Lawyer?

a)

Thurgood Marshall

b)

Gloria Allred

c)

Jack Greenberg

d)

Robert Kennedy

30.

The Little Rock Nine were supported by the School Superintendent, but were challenged by:

a)

President Eisenhower

b)

President Kennedy

c)

Governor Faubus

d)

NAACP Lawyer Thurgood Marshall