WorksheetsCivil Rights Movement
Total questions: 31
Worksheet time: 16mins
Which city had a bus boycott that was intended to cost the bus companies so much money that they would voluntarily end segregation?
Birmingham, AL
Montgomery, AL
Selma, AL
Memphis, TN
Which city had a bus boycott that was intended to cost the bus companies so much money that they would voluntarily end segregation?
Birmingham, AL
Montgomery, AL
Selma, AL
Memphis, TN
In which area did the civil rights movement have the least amount of success?
Ending de facto segregation
Ending unequal housing practices
Ending unequal voting practices
Ending de jure segregation
What is racial segregation enforced by customs and expectations rather than by law.
de facto segregation
de jure segregation
Sit-ins
Civil RIght
What is legal segregation?
de facto segregation
de jure segregation
sit-ins
civil disobedience
What is the nonviolent refusal to obey government laws and commands because one feels they are unjustified?
de facto segregation
de jure segregation
civil rights
civil disobedience
Which Supreme Court case is known for the saying “separate but equal”?
Plessy v Ferguson
Brown v the Board of Education
Sweatt v Painter
Boynton v Virginia
This event was an organized effort to change practices in the U.S. that kept segregation, racial discrimination, and white supremacy.
Civil Rights Movement
Children's March
March from Selma to Montgomery
March on Washington
What, specifically, did Brown v the Board of Education say about segregation in public schools?
That it was unfair.
That it was unconstitutional.
That it was fair.
That it needed to end.
What were the Little Rock 9 known for?
Being the first African American elementary school students to attend an integrated school.
Being the first African American students to attended an integrated school.
Being a part of the Freedom Rides
Being a part of the first sit-ins in North Carolina
Who was the first African American student to attend a desegregated public school in New Orleans, LA?
Ruby Bridges
Rosa Parks
James Meredith
Emmett Till
Who was the first African American to attend a public college/university?
James Meredity
Ruby Bridges
Malcolm X
Stokely Carmichael
Who was the leader of the SCLC?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
John F. Kennedy
Malcolm X
Huey Newton
What does SCLC stand for?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Southern Corner Leadership Conference
South Carolina Leadership Conference
Southern Christian Leadership Cooperative
Which Civil Rights Act made it a federal crime to deny anyone the right to vote?
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Voting Rights Act of 1963
What kind of protests were SNCC members most well-known for?
Sit-ins
Marches
Town hall meetings
Boycotts
Who wrote “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” after he had been arrested during protests in Birmingham, AL?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Malcolm X
Robert F. Kennedy
Rosa Parks
Which civil rights event saw the arrest of adults AND children because of marches throughout the streets of Birmingham?
Children's March
March on Washington
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Bloody Sunday/Selma March
Which Civil Rights Act was the most comprehensive civil rights act since Reconstruction, was created by President Kennedy, and finalized by President Johnson?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Voting Rights Act of 1963
How did many state and local governments try to keep African Americans from getting any political power?
Poll taxes
Literacy Tests
Both of these
None of these
Which Amendment granted everyone, no matter their race, sex, or national origin, the right to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, Senators, and Representatives in Congress?
21st
22nd
23rd
24th
Which Civil Rights Movement event was known as “Bloody Sunday”?
Montgomery Bus Boycott
March on Selma
Children's Crusade/March
Freedom Rides
Stokely Carmichael was the first person to use what phrase during the Civil Rights Movement?
Black Panthers
Black Power
Civil Rights Movement
I have a dream
What did Stokely Carmichael want African Americans to take up arms against?
Racial oppression
Segregation
Civil disobedience
the 24th Amendment
Which civil rights activist started out wanting African Americans to take up arms and act out violently against racial oppression, but then had a change of heart after a trip to Mecca?
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Bobby Seale
Huey Newton
Choose all that apply: Which of these were what the Black Panthers wanted achieve for African Americans?
African Americans excluded from the Draft.
Free African American inmates from prisons
Financial compensation for year of oppression
Free college tuition for all African Americans that were 18 and older
Who was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, TN by James Earl Ray?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
President John. F Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Malcolm X
What did the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. mark the end of?
the modern civil rights movement
racial oppression in the United States
all civil rights bills after 1968
violence towards African Americans
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1968 create?
Fair Housing Act
the 25th Amendment
More fair voting rights for African Americans
Poll taxes for voting
Which civil rights events was meant, specifically, to bring awareness to the racial inequalities in the country, and to pressure Congress to Pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964? (Hint: I have a dream)
March on Selma
March on Washington
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Children's Crusade/March
Which President was a huge supporter of the Civil Rights Movement, but before he could do more to help the cause, was assassinated in Dallas, TX in November of 1963?
Kennedy
Eisenhower
Johnson
Nixon
