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Civil Rights Review

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What Supreme Court Cast established "Separate But Equal" as the law of the land?

a)

Brown v Board of Education

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson

c)

Mendez v. Wesminster

d)

Sweatt v. Painter

2.

Which was the first case to challenge the separate but equal doctrine?

a)

Brown v. Board of Education

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson

c)

Mendez v. Westminster

d)

Sweatt v. Painter

3.

Which Supreme Court case made it so all colleges had to be integrated?

a)

Brown v. Board of Education

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson

c)

Mendez v. Westminster

d)

Sweatt v. Painter

4.

Which case finally outlawed segregation in schools in the United States?

a)

Brown v. Board of Education

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson

c)

Mendez v. Wesminster

d)

Sweatt v. Painter

5.

What name was given to the group of black students that tried to go to school in Arkansaw in 1956?

a)

The Fayetteville Ten

b)

The Eureka Springs Twelve

c)

The Little Rock Nine

d)

The West Memphis Three

6.

What allowed Ruby Bridges to attend an integrated school?

a)

She passed a purposely difficult test

b)

The ruling of the Supreme Court

c)

The National Guard stepped in

d)

President Eisenhower wrote an executive order

7.

Who was allowed to go to school at the University of Mississippi after a federal court ordered the school to admit him?

a)

Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

George Wallace

c)

Emmett Till

d)

James Meridith

8.

What happened on December 1, 1955?

a)

Rosa Parks was arrested

b)

Jo Ann Robinson started the bus boycott

c)

Martin Luther King Jr. arrives in Montgomery

d)

The Montgomery Bus Boycott ends

9.

How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?

a)

4 days

b)

3 months

c)

6 months

d)

more than 1 year

10.

Whose brutal death forced the American public to witness the impact of racism thus spurning many to act?

a)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

b)

Medgar Evers

c)

Malcom X

d)

Emmett Till

11.

What is the SCLC?

a)

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

b)

Student Civil-Rights Leadership Committee

c)

Southern Central Liberation Center

d)

South Carolina Liberal Conference

12.

Who shared with the movement "six principles of nonviolence?"

a)

Malcom X

b)

Mohandas Ghandi

c)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

d)

James Lawson

13.

In what city did four African-American college students walk into a Woolworth's and sat at a lunch counter designated for whites only?

a)

Birmingham, Alabama

b)

Little Rock, Arkansas

c)

Greensboro, North Carolina

d)

Selma, Alabama

14.

What is SNCC?

a)

Southern Negro Children for Change

b)

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

c)

Southern Nebraska Change Chapter

d)

Student National Children's Committee

15.

What was the pledge of the Congress of Racial Equality?

a)

To end racism by any means necsessary

b)

To stop the spread prejudice through violent means

c)

To fight discrimination through nonviolent protest

d)

To support the Civil Rights Movement through donations

16.

What was the purpose for CORE's Freedom Riders?

a)

To challenge the Montgomery Bus system

b)

To test segregated bus seating

c)

To support marches in different cities in the South

d)

To test the new law that banned segregation of public facilities serving travelers

17.

What city did Dr. King declare "by far the worst big city in race relation in the United States?"

a)

Montgomery, Alabama

b)

Birmingham, Alabama

c)

Selma, Alabama

d)

Tuskegee, Alabama

18.

Dr. King was arrested for his involvement in sit ins and boycotts in Birmingham. When he was in jail he responded to an editorial by white ministers with his....

a)

I Have a Dream speech

b)

Letter from Birmingham Jail

c)

Sermon on Racial Equality

d)

Call for Peace and Justice

19.

What was the official name for what is commonly called, "The March on Washington?"

a)

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

b)

March on Washington for Racial Equality

c)

The Million Man March on Washington

d)

The March on Washington for Civil Rights

20.

What was "Freedom Summer's" goal?

a)

To finally end segregation once and for all

b)

To get a real civil rights bill passed

c)

To petition the government to step in with military force to protect African-American communities

d)

To sign up as many African-American voters in Mississippi as possible.

21.

Which of the following did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?

a)

Withheld funds from segregated public programs

b)

Outlawed segregation in public places

c)

Prohibits workplace discrimination

d)

Established Martin Luther King Day

22.

Which of the following did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 do?

a)

Gave states control over who can vote

b)

Outlawed all obstacles that prevented African-Americans from voting

c)

Created a pole tax if people prevented others from voting

d)

Created a comprehensive voter registration test that had to be passed in order to register.

23.

What movement grew out of a frustration of Dr. King's nonviolent approach to Civil Rights?

a)

The Ku Klux Klan

b)

The Black Power Movement

c)

The Commission of Southern Whites

d)

The Benevolent Order of Police Captians

24.

What did Malcolm X support?

a)

Nonviolence

b)

Self Defense

c)

Fighting First

d)

Retaliation

25.

What did the Black Panther Party see themselves as?

a)

The biggest T'Challa fans in the world, Wakanda Forever!

b)

The last line of defense against segregation

c)

The armed enemies of a racist "police state"

d)

The only group that could integrate Oakland, California