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Civil Rights Movement

Total questions: 31

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which city had a bus boycott that was intended to cost the bus companies so much money that they would voluntarily end segregation?

a)

Birmingham, AL

b)

Montgomery, AL

c)

Selma, AL

d)

Memphis, TN

2.

Which city had a bus boycott that was intended to cost the bus companies so much money that they would voluntarily end segregation?

a)

Birmingham, AL

b)

Montgomery, AL

c)

Selma, AL

d)

Memphis, TN

3.

In which area did the civil rights movement have the least amount of success?

a)

Ending de facto segregation

b)

Ending unequal housing practices

c)

Ending unequal voting practices

d)

Ending de jure segregation

4.

What is racial segregation enforced by customs and expectations rather than by law.

a)

de facto segregation

b)

de jure segregation

c)

Sit-ins

d)

Civil RIght

5.

What is legal segregation?

a)

de facto segregation

b)

de jure segregation

c)

sit-ins

d)

civil disobedience

6.

What is the nonviolent refusal to obey government laws and commands because one feels they are unjustified?

a)

de facto segregation

b)

de jure segregation

c)

civil rights

d)

civil disobedience

7.

Which Supreme Court case is known for the saying “separate but equal”?

a)

Plessy v Ferguson

b)

Brown v the Board of Education

c)

Sweatt v Painter

d)

Boynton v Virginia

8.

This event was an organized effort to change practices in the U.S. that kept segregation, racial discrimination, and white supremacy.

a)

Civil Rights Movement

b)

Children's March

c)

March from Selma to Montgomery

d)

March on Washington

9.

What, specifically, did Brown v the Board of Education say about segregation in public schools?

a)

That it was unfair.

b)

That it was unconstitutional.

c)

That it was fair.

d)

That it needed to end.

10.

What were the Little Rock 9 known for?

a)

Being the first African American elementary school students to attend an integrated school.

b)

Being the first African American students to attended an integrated school.

c)

Being a part of the Freedom Rides

d)

Being a part of the first sit-ins in North Carolina

11.

Who was the first African American student to attend a desegregated public school in New Orleans, LA?

a)

Ruby Bridges

b)

Rosa Parks

c)

James Meredith

d)

Emmett Till

12.

Who was the first African American to attend a public college/university?

a)

James Meredity

b)

Ruby Bridges

c)

Malcolm X

d)

Stokely Carmichael

13.

Who was the leader of the SCLC?

a)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

b)

John F. Kennedy

c)

Malcolm X

d)

Huey Newton

14.

What does SCLC stand for?

a)

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

b)

Southern Corner Leadership Conference

c)

South Carolina Leadership Conference

d)

Southern Christian Leadership Cooperative

15.

Which Civil Rights Act made it a federal crime to deny anyone the right to vote?

a)

Civil Rights Act of 1957

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1968

d)

Voting Rights Act of 1963

16.

What kind of protests were SNCC members most well-known for?

a)

Sit-ins

b)

Marches

c)

Town hall meetings

d)

Boycotts

17.

Who wrote “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” after he had been arrested during protests in Birmingham, AL?

a)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Robert F. Kennedy

d)

Rosa Parks

18.

Which civil rights event saw the arrest of adults AND children because of marches throughout the streets of Birmingham?

a)

Children's March

b)

March on Washington

c)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

d)

Bloody Sunday/Selma March

19.

Which Civil Rights Act was the most comprehensive civil rights act since Reconstruction, was created by President Kennedy, and finalized by President Johnson?

a)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1968

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1957

d)

Voting Rights Act of 1963

20.

How did many state and local governments try to keep African Americans from getting any political power?

a)

Poll taxes

b)

Literacy Tests

c)

Both of these

d)

None of these

21.

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?

a)

21st

b)

22nd

c)

23rd

d)

24th

22.

Which Civil Rights Movement event was known as “Bloody Sunday”?

a)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

b)

March on Selma

c)

Children's Crusade/March

d)

Freedom Rides

23.

Stokely Carmichael was the first person to use what phrase during the Civil Rights Movement?

a)

Black Panthers

b)

Black Power

c)

Civil Rights Movement

d)

I have a dream

24.

What did Stokely Carmichael want African Americans to take up arms against?

a)

Racial oppression

b)

Segregation

c)

Civil disobedience

d)

the 24th Amendment

25.

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?

a)

Malcolm X

b)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

c)

Bobby Seale

d)

Huey Newton

26.

Choose all that apply: Which of these were what the Black Panthers wanted achieve for African Americans?

a)

African Americans excluded from the Draft.

b)

Free African American inmates from prisons

c)

Financial compensation for year of oppression

d)

Free college tuition for all African Americans that were 18 and older

27.

Who was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, TN by James Earl Ray?

a)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

b)

President John. F Kennedy

c)

Robert F. Kennedy

d)

Malcolm X

28.

What did the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. mark the end of?

a)

the modern civil rights movement

b)

racial oppression in the United States

c)

all civil rights bills after 1968

d)

violence towards African Americans

29.

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1968 create?

a)

Fair Housing Act

b)

the 25th Amendment

c)

More fair voting rights for African Americans

d)

Poll taxes for voting

30.

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)

a)

March on Selma

b)

March on Washington

c)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

d)

Children's Crusade/March

31.

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?

a)

Kennedy

b)

Eisenhower

c)

Johnson

d)

Nixon