WorksheetsCivil Rights Review
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 19mins
What Supreme Court Cast established "Separate But Equal" as the law of the land?
Brown v Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
Mendez v. Wesminster
Sweatt v. Painter
Which was the first case to challenge the separate but equal doctrine?
Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
Mendez v. Westminster
Sweatt v. Painter
Which Supreme Court case made it so all colleges had to be integrated?
Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
Mendez v. Westminster
Sweatt v. Painter
Which case finally outlawed segregation in schools in the United States?
Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
Mendez v. Wesminster
Sweatt v. Painter
What name was given to the group of black students that tried to go to school in Arkansaw in 1956?
The Fayetteville Ten
The Eureka Springs Twelve
The Little Rock Nine
The West Memphis Three
What allowed Ruby Bridges to attend an integrated school?
She passed a purposely difficult test
The ruling of the Supreme Court
The National Guard stepped in
President Eisenhower wrote an executive order
Who was allowed to go to school at the University of Mississippi after a federal court ordered the school to admit him?
Martin Luther King Jr.
George Wallace
Emmett Till
James Meridith
What happened on December 1, 1955?
Rosa Parks was arrested
Jo Ann Robinson started the bus boycott
Martin Luther King Jr. arrives in Montgomery
The Montgomery Bus Boycott ends
How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
4 days
3 months
6 months
more than 1 year
Whose brutal death forced the American public to witness the impact of racism thus spurning many to act?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Medgar Evers
Malcom X
Emmett Till
What is the SCLC?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Student Civil-Rights Leadership Committee
Southern Central Liberation Center
South Carolina Liberal Conference
Who shared with the movement "six principles of nonviolence?"
Malcom X
Mohandas Ghandi
Martin Luther King, Jr.
James Lawson
In what city did four African-American college students walk into a Woolworth's and sat at a lunch counter designated for whites only?
Birmingham, Alabama
Little Rock, Arkansas
Greensboro, North Carolina
Selma, Alabama
What is SNCC?
Southern Negro Children for Change
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Southern Nebraska Change Chapter
Student National Children's Committee
What was the pledge of the Congress of Racial Equality?
To end racism by any means necsessary
To stop the spread prejudice through violent means
To fight discrimination through nonviolent protest
To support the Civil Rights Movement through donations
What was the purpose for CORE's Freedom Riders?
To challenge the Montgomery Bus system
To test segregated bus seating
To support marches in different cities in the South
To test the new law that banned segregation of public facilities serving travelers
What city did Dr. King declare "by far the worst big city in race relation in the United States?"
Montgomery, Alabama
Birmingham, Alabama
Selma, Alabama
Tuskegee, Alabama
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....
I Have a Dream speech
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Sermon on Racial Equality
Call for Peace and Justice
What was the official name for what is commonly called, "The March on Washington?"
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
March on Washington for Racial Equality
The Million Man March on Washington
The March on Washington for Civil Rights
What was "Freedom Summer's" goal?
To finally end segregation once and for all
To get a real civil rights bill passed
To petition the government to step in with military force to protect African-American communities
To sign up as many African-American voters in Mississippi as possible.
Which of the following did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?
Withheld funds from segregated public programs
Outlawed segregation in public places
Prohibits workplace discrimination
Established Martin Luther King Day
Which of the following did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 do?
Gave states control over who can vote
Outlawed all obstacles that prevented African-Americans from voting
Created a pole tax if people prevented others from voting
Created a comprehensive voter registration test that had to be passed in order to register.
What movement grew out of a frustration of Dr. King's nonviolent approach to Civil Rights?
The Ku Klux Klan
The Black Power Movement
The Commission of Southern Whites
The Benevolent Order of Police Captians
What did Malcolm X support?
Nonviolence
Self Defense
Fighting First
Retaliation
What did the Black Panther Party see themselves as?
The biggest T'Challa fans in the world, Wakanda Forever!
The last line of defense against segregation
The armed enemies of a racist "police state"
The only group that could integrate Oakland, California
