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WorksheetsCivil Rights
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
A Civil Rights leader who helped start the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Malcolm X
Barack Obama
Rosa Parks
Ruby Bridges
A Civil Rights leader who believed in nonviolent protests.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Malcolm X
Ruby Bridges
Lyndon B. Johnson
Civil Rights leader who believed that African Americans should take more direct methods to get there civil rights, but later changed his mind and believed that whites and blacks would have to work together to have equality.
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King, Jr.
John F. Kennedy
John Lewis
Non-violent protest, where African Americans sat in the white only sections of restaurants.
Freedom Rides
Freedom Marches
Sit-ins
Freedom Gardens
A Civil Rights Movement that involved over 200,000 African Americans and White citizens gathering in Washington D.C.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
March on Washington
Red Scare
The Washington Jamboree
Bus rides taken by African Americans and Whites into the Deep South to test the segregated interstate bus laws.
March on Washington
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Sit-ins
Freedom Rides
Amendment that freed all slaves.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
18th Amendment
The Amendment that gave African Americans citizenship rights and equal protection under the law.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
18th Amendment
The Amendment that gave African Americans males voting rights.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
18th Amendment
The President who sent laws to congress that would improve the civil rights of African Americans. He was assassinated before the laws went into effect.
John F. Kennedy
Thurgood Marshall
Richard Nixon
Lyndon B. Johnson
Laws passed mainly in the south that segregated the races.
Black Codes
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954
Organization started by W.E.B. DuBois that helped to fight discrimination.
NFL
SNCC
NAACP
USSR
What was the first thing that was desegregated in the United States?
schools
churches
U.S. Military
restaurants
Who was one early leader of the Civil Rights Movement?
Amelia Earhart
Hank Aaron
Jackie Robinson
Babe Ruth
Who were the Little Rock Nine?
9 African American baseball players.
9 African American pilots who fought in WWII.
9 students who sued the government to attend an all-white school in Arkansas.
9 students who led sit-ins in North Carolina
This court case led the the integration of schools in the United States.
Plessy vs Ferguson
Brown vs Board of Education
Salem Witch Trials
Civil Rights Act
Which of these figures was NOT assassinated in the 1960s?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Malcolm X
Lyndon B. Johnson
John F. Kennedy
