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WorksheetsU.S. History The Civil Rights Movement
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
The Civil Rights Movement was a period in history in which
African Americans demanded an end to racial discrimination
The Jim Crow Laws were established
The nation immediately responded to and changed the unfair treatment of African-Americans
Rich white men demanded fair treatment for all
True or False: The main era of civil rights occurred in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
True
False
Which of the following made it legal to segregate by race and prompted the passage of Jim Crow laws?
the Fourteenth Amendment
the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson
the Civil Rights Act of 1875
the decision in Morgan v. Virginia
Which doctrine relating to public education was overturned by the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education?
due process of law
“all deliberate speed”
“separate but equal”
equal protection of the law
True or False: Thurgood Marshall, the head of the NAACP’s group of lawyers, argued Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka before the Supreme Court.
True
False
Ten years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, what was the average rate of school integration in the southern states?
more than 86%
42%
11%
less than 3%
True or False: Emmitt Till was arrested for refusing to give up a bus seat to a white man.
True
False
One accomplishment of the ___ was bringing about a federal ban on segregation in all interstate travel facilities.
Little Rock Nine
Black Panthers
Freedom Riders
Anti-Lynching Committees
Members of SNCC used which tactic to desegregate lunch counters throughout the South?
sit-ins
bus rides
marches
violent resistance
True or False: African-American students were left alone by the whites at the lunch counters.
True
False
The Children’s March became a national symbol of the brutality in southern cities when
film footage of children being attacked by dogs and fire hoses was shown on national television
10 of the children were lynched in front of a huge crowd of whites
1000 students were forced to go back to school
the national guard would not allow them to attend desegregated schools
In the summer of 1964, thousands of white college students took part in ___.
riots in Northern cities resulting from racial tensions
a demonstration in support of integrating Southern colleges
a funeral procession for Martin Luther King, Jr.
a campaign to register African American voters in Mississippi
True or False: George Wallace, governor of Alabama, was a strong supporter of civil rights.
True
False
True or False: In most demonstrations, when the first round of protesters were arrested, the remaining protesters gave up.
True
False
The purpose of literacy tests was to
make sure voters knew and understood the constitution
keep women from voting
show who was qualified to vote
keep African-Americans from voting
De jure segregation is segregation that results from ___.
laws
habit and custom
random chance
inequalities in education
Which of the following is an example of de facto segregation?
poll taxes
a concentration of urban African Americans in slum areas
Jim Crow laws
a voter literacy test given to African Americans in the South
True or False: In the late 1960’s race riots broke out in many northern cities because of frustration over the lack of decent housing, schools and jobs in African-American communities.
True
False
Appealing to many African Americans’ anger and frustration over a lack of social and economic power, ___ preached a militant approach to civil rights.
Medgar Evars
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King, Jr
A. Philip Randolph
Which of the following leaders is NOT associated with the Black Power movement?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Stokely Carmichael
the Black Panthers
Malcolm X
Lynching can be described by each of the following EXCEPT:
unauthorized punishment of criminals
taking the law into one’s own hands
state imposed capital punishment
execution by a mob
True or False: The KKK invented lynching in the 1880’s.
True
False
Which of the following statements about Emmitt Till’s Lynching is not true?
He was lynched for whistling at/flirting with a white woman
He was brutally beaten and then shot
The two white men accused of lynching him were acquitted
His body was so disfigured, his family held a closed casket funeral
It was took six weeks to find the bodies of the three civil rights workers lynched in Mississippi because
the bodies were actually buried in Alabama
the state of Mississippi refused to help in the search and investigation
the bodies had been burned to ash in the burning of a black church being used as a Freedom School
search efforts were hampered by a severe hurricane
The long-term legacies of the Civil Rights Movement include all of the following EXCEPT:
It ended racial prejudice and hatred of minorities
Ending discrimination in employment led to better jobs and more stable incomes
Voting rights gave African-Americans a stronger voice and participation in politics
African-Americans became more accepted and began to appear in movies and on television
