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Civil Rights Final

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 33mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Emmett Till was killed in

a)

Montgomery, AL

b)

Selma, Alabama

c)

Money, Mississippi

d)

Little Rock Arkansas

2.

Where was Emmett Till originally from?

a)

Chicago, Illinois

b)

Montgomery, Alabama

c)

Money, Mississippi

d)

Little Rock Arkansas

3.

Where was Emmett Till’s body found?

a)

The Tallahatchie River

b)

Behind Bryant’s Store

c)

Washington Park

d)

In the back of a pickup truck

4.

Who was President of the United States at the time of Emmett’s death?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

c)

John F. Kennedy

d)

Lyndon B. Johnson

5.

What was Moses Wright’s courageous action?

a)

He allowed the media to publish his photo in the newspaper, which was unheard of at the time

b)

He stood up in Court and pointed to the Defendant, Mr. Milam, as Till’s kidnapper

c)

He went to Bryant’s store to see where the events took place

d)

He told the NAACP that he would testify against the Prosecution

6.

MLK chose ___________ to be the center of the Civil Rights Movement because he felt it was the most segregated city in the country.

a)

Greensboro

b)

Little Rock

c)

Selma

d)

Birmingham

7.

At the Edmund Pettus Bridge, state troopers attacked protestors involved in the

a)

Selma March

b)

March on Washington

c)

Children's March

d)

Greensboro Sit-Ins

8.

First black student at Ole Miss

a)

Emmett Till

b)

Bull Connor

c)

Orval Faubus

d)

James Meredith

9.

Supreme Court decision that ended segregation in schools

a)

Civil Rights Act of 1965

b)

14th Amendment

c)

Plessy v Ferguson

d)

Brown v Board of Education

10.

Where did the "I have a dream" speech take place?

a)

Selma, Alabama

b)

Money, MS

c)

March on Washington

d)

Children's March

11.

Where did police use fire hoses and dogs to attack protesters?

a)

Children's March

b)

March on Washington

c)

Little Rock 9

d)

Selma

12.

What was the result of the Selma movement?

a)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

b)

Brown v. Board of Education

c)

Plessy v. Ferguson

d)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

13.

Who was president during the Selma march?

a)

Lyndon B. Johnson

b)

John F. Kennedy

c)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

d)

George Wallace

14.

The Selma march was meant to achieve

a)

Integration

b)

Voting Rights

c)

Freedom of speech

d)

The right to protest

15.

In what state was Selma?

a)

Mississippi

b)

Georgia

c)

Alabama

d)

Arkansas

16.

The governor of Alabama who opposed both desegregation and voting rights was ________

a)

Bull Connor

b)

Orval Faubus

c)

Thurgood Marshall

d)

George Wallace

17.

What was the name of the high school that 9 students integrated that led to the desegregation of Arkansas high schools?

a)

Central High School

b)

Little Rock High school

c)

Selma High

d)

Plessy Ferguson High School

18.

Who was the president during the Little Rock 9 event?

a)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

b)

JFK

c)

Martin Luther King

d)

Harry Truman

19.

In order to enforce integration in Arkansas, the president called in 1,200 members of the _________________

a)

Police Department

b)

U.S. Army 101st Airborne

c)

U.S. Marines

d)

U.S. Air Force

20.

Even though the Little Rock 9 students were able to eventually enroll and attend, they were prohibited from ________________

a)

Eating in the lunch room

b)

Going to assemblies

c)

Extracurricular Activities

d)

Passing their classes

21.

Brown v. the Board of Education determined that _______ was unconstitutional

a)

segregation

b)

integration

22.

Who was head of Public Safety in Birmingham, Alabama

a)

Orval Faubus

b)

Bull Connor

c)

George Wallace

d)

Martin Luther King Jr.

23.

Plessy v. Ferguson ruled that ______ was Constitutional

a)

Segregation

b)

Integration

24.

The Children's March was held to achieve

a)

Segregation

b)

Integration

c)

Voting Rights

d)

ending slavery

25.

The Children's March was held in what city?

a)

Selma

b)

Little Rock

c)

Birmingham

d)

Chicago

26.

Birmingham was nicknamed

a)

Bombingham

b)

Burningham

c)

Broville

d)

Bridgeham

27.

Who was determined not to let the Little Rock into the school

a)

Bull Connor

b)

Orval Faubus

c)

George Wallace

d)

Conrad Kennedy

28.

What did many of the teachers do to help students in the Marches they had planned

a)

Gave them directions to get to the church

b)

Gave them directions to get to the park

c)

Turned their back so they could walk out of class

d)

Told them to listen to the radio for clues

29.

There is going to be a "party in the park" meant

a)

The kids were supposed to start throwing rocks at the police if they showed up to the park

b)

The kids were supposed to meet at the church to begin their march

c)

The sprinklers were going to be on so the kids could cool off

d)

Stay away from the park as the police were going to be arresting people

30.

Where were kids getting their directions from about the Children's March?

a)

From their teachers

b)

They were planning it at the park after school

c)

From the DJ on the Radio

d)

From letter written by Martin Luther King Jr.

31.

When the kids were arrested during the Children's March many of them began

a)

Crying

b)

Singing

c)

Throwing rocks at the police

d)

Begging for their parents to come get them

32.

Emmett Till was killed by

a)

Beating him and then shooting him

b)

Drowning him in the river

c)

Haninging him from a tree

d)

Dragging him behind a pickup from the store to the river

33.

Emmitt Till's mother help bring attention to his death by

a)

showing up at his trial every day

b)

testifying against his murderers in court

c)

having an open casket funeral and allowing pictures to be taken

d)

organizing a march across the country

34.

Emmett Till's murderers

a)

were eventually convicted and sentenced to jail

b)

were found not guilty and then got paid for admitting their guilt

c)

turned themselves in and were executed for their crimes

d)

were never caught and the crime remains unsolved to this day

35.

How many girls were killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing?

a)

2

b)

3

c)

4

d)

5

36.

The 16th Street Church was bombed because of

a)

The Children's March

b)

Orders from the supreme court to end segregation

c)

The arrest of Emmet Till's murderers

d)

The Voting Rights Act was passed

37.

Another name for the law that kept black and whites separate was

a)

Brown v. Board of Education

b)

Jim Crow

c)

Integrationalism

d)

Bigotry

38.

Which statement is true about the 16th street Baptist Church bombing

a)

All of the men involved were arrested and found guilty

b)

None of the men involved were arrested and found guilty

c)

Eventually 3 of the 4 men were arrested and found guilty and 1 died before he could be charged

d)

Only 1 man was arrested but he was charged with the bombing of the church but never the murder of the girls

39.

Who was president of the United States during the Children's March

a)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

b)

John F. Kennedy

c)

Lyndon B. Johnson

d)

Martin Luther King Jr.

40.

When the President saw the pictures of protestors being sprayed with fire hoses he

a)

Sent the National Guard in to stop the protest

b)

He called the governor and order him to tell the police to stop the brutality

c)

He called the leaders of the protest movement and asked them to stop marching

d)

He didn't do anything at all

41.

In an attempt to resist the ruling of integration the governor of Arkansas

a)

closed the high school for the year

b)

began threatening the parents of the black students

c)

called in bomb threats

d)

arrested the students for trespassing

42.

When did Martin Luther King Jr. give his famous "I have a dream speech"?

a)

March on Selma

b)

during a rally at the 16th Street Baptist Church

c)

Emmett Till's Funeral

d)

March on Washington

43.

What strategy did teenagers use to integrate restaurants?

a)

Marches

b)

Boycotts

c)

Sit-ins

d)

Riots

44.

Students both black and white who came to the South to help African Americans register to vote and achieve integration were called

a)

Freedom Riders

b)

Supremacists

c)

Jim Crows

d)

Klansman

45.

Who was the governor that defied the Supreme Court decision to integrate Mississippi

a)

Orval Faubus

b)

Bull Connor

c)

Ross Barnett

d)

George Wallace

46.

How many people were killed when violence broke out over the integration of Ole Miss?

a)

2

b)

4

c)

5

d)

10

47.

Bloody Sunday refers to

a)

the 16th Street Church bombing

b)

Violence that occurred on the bridge in Selma

c)

Emmett Till's funeral

d)

The night before the Little Rock 9 started their first day of school

48.

Orval Faubus defied the Supreme Court's order to

a)

Allow African American's the right to register to vote

b)

Allow African Americans the right to march in Selma

c)

Allow the Little Rock 9 to attend an all white school

d)

to reopen the investigation into the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing

49.

How long did it take the all male, all white jury to acquit Emmett Till's murderers?

a)

37 minutes

b)

67 minutes

c)

97 minutes

d)

2 hours

50.

How young was the youngest protester arrested in the Children's March

a)

4

b)

7

c)

10

d)

14