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Civil Rights Movement Quiz

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Most segregated city in U.S.

a)

Selma

b)

Montgomery

c)

Birmingham

d)

Jackson

2.

Bus Boycott occurred in which city?

a)

Montgomery, Alabama

b)

Selma, Alabama

c)

Atlanta, Georgia

d)

Birmingham, Alabama

3.

Segregation expectations not set into law.

a)

De facto segregation

b)

De jure segregation

c)

Black codes

d)

All included

4.

What was the true purpose of the March on Washington?

a)

Voting Rights

b)

Jobs and Freedom

c)

Civil Rights

d)

Anti-literacy tests

5.

Brown v. Board of Education established....

a)

segregation of schools was Constitutional

b)

segregation of housing and schools was unconstitutional

c)

segregation of schools was constitutional so long as facilities were equal

d)

segregation of schools was unconstitutional

6.

How were Little Rock 9 able to attend school?

a)

Eisenhower sent troops to protect them

b)

JFK sent troops to protect them

c)

LBJ sent troops to protect them

d)

Truman sent troops to protect them

7.

Who won Election of 1960?

a)

Lyndon B. Johnson

b)

Richard Nixon

c)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

d)

John F. Kennedy

8.

On what day was JFK assassinated?

a)

November 22, 1968

b)

August 23, 1963

c)

August 26, 1968

d)

November 22, 1963

9.

Who shot JFK?

a)

James Earl Ray

b)

John Brown

c)

John Wilkes Booth

d)

Lee Harvey Oswald

10.

The ________ was bombed in 1963 by the local KKK and resulted in the death of 4 girls.

a)

16th Street Baptist Church

b)

home of Martin Luther King Jr.

c)

office of Malcolm X

d)

home of Rosa Parks

11.

Outlawed racial segregation in any public facility.

a)

Civil Rights Act of 1965

b)

Voting Rights Act of 1964

c)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

d)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

12.

The major weakness of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was that it didn't address _____.

a)

Housing segregation

b)

Educational segregation

c)

voting discrimination

d)

equal justice

13.

Who signed the Civil Rights Act into law?

a)

JFK

b)

LBJ

c)

Eisenhower

d)

Nixon

14.

Movement which advocated black nationalism, self-reliance, and self-defense.

a)

Black Power

b)

Gandhi

c)

MLK Jr.'s Non-Violent Movement

d)

Black Muslims

15.

The Kerner Report said....

a)

U.S. was developing one white society and one black society, totally unequal

b)

U.S. was developing separate but equal societies of blacks and whites

c)

the Civil Rights Movement had made great strides in merging the black and white societies together

d)

the Civil Rights Movement was unfounded due to the separate but equal facilities given to the races

16.

Movement which focused on desegregating interstate travel?

a)

Sit-ins

b)

Freedom Rides

c)

Freedom Summer

d)

Bus Boycott

17.

Belief that blacks should separate and form their own society.

a)

Black Nationalism

b)

Harlem Renaissance

c)

Passive Resistance

d)

De jure segregation

18.

Blood Sunday refers to...

a)

Explosion of 16th Street Baptist Church

b)

Birmingham violence w/ dogs, fire hoses, etc...

c)

Attack on protestors on Edmund Pettus Bridge

d)

Murder of MLK Jr.

19.

Outlawed voting discrimination, such as literacy tests.

a)

Voting Rights Act of 1975

b)

Kerner Report

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

d)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

20.

Where was JFK assassinated?

a)

Austin, TX

b)

Dallas, TX

c)

San Antonio, TX

d)

Memphis, TN

21.

Nation of Islam advocate who later advocated peaceful protest?

a)

Bobby Seale

b)

Malcolm X

c)

John Lewis

d)

Huey Newton

22.

Extreme version of Black Power which advocated for separate black and white societies.

a)

Black Panthers

b)

Malcolm X Movement

c)

Nation of Islam

d)

All Included

23.

Laws designed to separate the races.

a)

De facto segregation

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Black Codes

d)

Affirmative Action Laws

24.

Who sent the KKK to attack the Birmingham freedom riders?

a)

Huey Newton

b)

Bull Conner

c)

Orval Faubus

d)

George Wallace

25.

T or F: The bus in Anniston, Alabama was set on fire.

a)

True

b)

False

26.

The 9 high school students who were integrated into an all-white school are known as the....

a)

Little Rock Nine

b)

Arkansas Nine

c)

Birmingham Crusaders

d)

Freedom Nine

27.

Who were the 2 political contenders of the 1960 election?

a)

Nixon & LBJ

b)

Nixon & Eisenhower

c)

LBJ & JFK

d)

JFK & Nixon

28.

Most segregated state in U.S.?

a)

Georgia

b)

Mississippi

c)

Alabama

d)

Arkansas

29.

Use of dogs, clubs, and firehoses on protestors was part of which campaign?

a)

Children's Crusade

b)

Birmingham Campaign

c)

Freedom Summer

d)

Selma to Montgomery Marches

30.

Voter Education Project, aka _______ resulted in the death of ____ men.

a)

Freedom Summer; 5

b)

Freedom Summer; 3

c)

Freedom Summer; 12

d)

Freedom Summer; 4