WorksheetsCivil Rights Final
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 33mins
Emmett Till was killed in
Montgomery, AL
Selma, Alabama
Money, Mississippi
Little Rock Arkansas
Where was Emmett Till originally from?
Chicago, Illinois
Montgomery, Alabama
Money, Mississippi
Little Rock Arkansas
Where was Emmett Till’s body found?
The Tallahatchie River
Behind Bryant’s Store
Washington Park
In the back of a pickup truck
Who was President of the United States at the time of Emmett’s death?
Abraham Lincoln
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
What was Moses Wright’s courageous action?
He allowed the media to publish his photo in the newspaper, which was unheard of at the time
He stood up in Court and pointed to the Defendant, Mr. Milam, as Till’s kidnapper
He went to Bryant’s store to see where the events took place
He told the NAACP that he would testify against the Prosecution
MLK chose ___________ to be the center of the Civil Rights Movement because he felt it was the most segregated city in the country.
Greensboro
Little Rock
Selma
Birmingham
At the Edmund Pettus Bridge, state troopers attacked protestors involved in the
Selma March
March on Washington
Children's March
Greensboro Sit-Ins
First black student at Ole Miss
Emmett Till
Bull Connor
Orval Faubus
James Meredith
Supreme Court decision that ended segregation in schools
Civil Rights Act of 1965
14th Amendment
Plessy v Ferguson
Brown v Board of Education
Where did the "I have a dream" speech take place?
Selma, Alabama
Money, MS
March on Washington
Children's March
Where did police use fire hoses and dogs to attack protesters?
Children's March
March on Washington
Little Rock 9
Selma
What was the result of the Selma movement?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Who was president during the Selma march?
Lyndon B. Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
George Wallace
The Selma march was meant to achieve
Integration
Voting Rights
Freedom of speech
The right to protest
In what state was Selma?
Mississippi
Georgia
Alabama
Arkansas
The governor of Alabama who opposed both desegregation and voting rights was ________
Bull Connor
Orval Faubus
Thurgood Marshall
George Wallace
What was the name of the high school that 9 students integrated that led to the desegregation of Arkansas high schools?
Central High School
Little Rock High school
Selma High
Plessy Ferguson High School
Who was the president during the Little Rock 9 event?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
JFK
Martin Luther King
Harry Truman
In order to enforce integration in Arkansas, the president called in 1,200 members of the _________________
Police Department
U.S. Army 101st Airborne
U.S. Marines
U.S. Air Force
Even though the Little Rock 9 students were able to eventually enroll and attend, they were prohibited from ________________
Eating in the lunch room
Going to assemblies
Extracurricular Activities
Passing their classes
Brown v. the Board of Education determined that _______ was unconstitutional
segregation
integration
Who was head of Public Safety in Birmingham, Alabama
Orval Faubus
Bull Connor
George Wallace
Martin Luther King Jr.
Plessy v. Ferguson ruled that ______ was Constitutional
Segregation
Integration
The Children's March was held to achieve
Segregation
Integration
Voting Rights
ending slavery
The Children's March was held in what city?
Selma
Little Rock
Birmingham
Chicago
Birmingham was nicknamed
Bombingham
Burningham
Broville
Bridgeham
Who was determined not to let the Little Rock into the school
Bull Connor
Orval Faubus
George Wallace
Conrad Kennedy
What did many of the teachers do to help students in the Marches they had planned
Gave them directions to get to the church
Gave them directions to get to the park
Turned their back so they could walk out of class
Told them to listen to the radio for clues
There is going to be a "party in the park" meant
The kids were supposed to start throwing rocks at the police if they showed up to the park
The kids were supposed to meet at the church to begin their march
The sprinklers were going to be on so the kids could cool off
Stay away from the park as the police were going to be arresting people
Where were kids getting their directions from about the Children's March?
From their teachers
They were planning it at the park after school
From the DJ on the Radio
From letter written by Martin Luther King Jr.
When the kids were arrested during the Children's March many of them began
Crying
Singing
Throwing rocks at the police
Begging for their parents to come get them
Emmett Till was killed by
Beating him and then shooting him
Drowning him in the river
Haninging him from a tree
Dragging him behind a pickup from the store to the river
Emmitt Till's mother help bring attention to his death by
showing up at his trial every day
testifying against his murderers in court
having an open casket funeral and allowing pictures to be taken
organizing a march across the country
Emmett Till's murderers
were eventually convicted and sentenced to jail
were found not guilty and then got paid for admitting their guilt
turned themselves in and were executed for their crimes
were never caught and the crime remains unsolved to this day
How many girls were killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing?
2
3
4
5
The 16th Street Church was bombed because of
The Children's March
Orders from the supreme court to end segregation
The arrest of Emmet Till's murderers
The Voting Rights Act was passed
Another name for the law that kept black and whites separate was
Brown v. Board of Education
Jim Crow
Integrationalism
Bigotry
Which statement is true about the 16th street Baptist Church bombing
All of the men involved were arrested and found guilty
None of the men involved were arrested and found guilty
Eventually 3 of the 4 men were arrested and found guilty and 1 died before he could be charged
Only 1 man was arrested but he was charged with the bombing of the church but never the murder of the girls
Who was president of the United States during the Children's March
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Martin Luther King Jr.
When the President saw the pictures of protestors being sprayed with fire hoses he
Sent the National Guard in to stop the protest
He called the governor and order him to tell the police to stop the brutality
He called the leaders of the protest movement and asked them to stop marching
He didn't do anything at all
In an attempt to resist the ruling of integration the governor of Arkansas
closed the high school for the year
began threatening the parents of the black students
called in bomb threats
arrested the students for trespassing
When did Martin Luther King Jr. give his famous "I have a dream speech"?
March on Selma
during a rally at the 16th Street Baptist Church
Emmett Till's Funeral
March on Washington
What strategy did teenagers use to integrate restaurants?
Marches
Boycotts
Sit-ins
Riots
Students both black and white who came to the South to help African Americans register to vote and achieve integration were called
Freedom Riders
Supremacists
Jim Crows
Klansman
Who was the governor that defied the Supreme Court decision to integrate Mississippi
Orval Faubus
Bull Connor
Ross Barnett
George Wallace
How many people were killed when violence broke out over the integration of Ole Miss?
2
4
5
10
Bloody Sunday refers to
the 16th Street Church bombing
Violence that occurred on the bridge in Selma
Emmett Till's funeral
The night before the Little Rock 9 started their first day of school
Orval Faubus defied the Supreme Court's order to
Allow African American's the right to register to vote
Allow African Americans the right to march in Selma
Allow the Little Rock 9 to attend an all white school
to reopen the investigation into the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
How long did it take the all male, all white jury to acquit Emmett Till's murderers?
37 minutes
67 minutes
97 minutes
2 hours
How young was the youngest protester arrested in the Children's March
4
7
10
14
