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Civil Rights Movement

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What was the result of the Brown versus Board of Education court case in 1954?
a)
Segregation of public schools became illegal
b)
African Americans began to play professional sports
c)
Martin Luther King led the March on Washington
d)
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus
2.
Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice, first became famous for which of the following:
a)
Organizing the March on Washington
b)
Not giving us his bus seat
c)
Winning the court case of Brown versus Board of Education
d)
Giving African Americans the right to vote
3.
What was the purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
a)
It gave black women the right to vote
b)
It made literacy tests in order to vote illegal
c)
It made Jim Crow Laws illegal
d)
It gave all blacks the right to vote
4.
The March on Washington was most famous because . . .
a)
it caused race riots in the nation's Capital
b)
200,000 people worked together to help blacks get the right to vote
c)
the KKK became an illegal organization because of the march
d)
Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I have a Dream: speech, which inspired hundreds of thousands to help the Civil Rights Movement
5.
Which of the following best describes the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
a)
Segregation on buses became illegal a few days after Rosa Parks began the protest
b)
Thousands of blacks blocked the streets so that buses could not finish their routes
c)
Martin Luther King was arrested for not giving up his seat to a white person
d)
Segregation of buses became illegal after many months of protesting
6.
How did the assassination of MLK affect the Civil Rights Movement?
a)
It had no effect
b)
The movement continued because he wasn't that important
c)
People were heartbroken and the movement slowed
d)
The movement gained strength because people of all races were outraged
7.
This act abolished racial, religious, and sex discrimination by employers; unlawful for an employer to “fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges or employment, because of such individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.” (signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson) (USH.9F)
a)
Civil Rights Act 1964
b)
Executive Order 1948
c)
Civil Rights Act 1957
d)
Voting Rights Act 1965
8.

The Freedom Riders were a group of African Americans and Whites who rode buses to..?

a)

Encourage A.A.'s to leave the south and move north

b)

to protest racial segregation throughout the south

c)

to promote membership in the KKK

d)

to gain support for the Vietnam war

9.
 An African American women who was asked to give up her seat on the bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama was
a)
Harriet B. Stowe
b)
Rosa Parks
c)
Michelle Obama
d)
Coretta King
10.
This law banned discrimination of any American because of race, gender,  or religion. 
a)
Voting Rights Act
b)
Civil Rights Act
c)
15th  Amendment
d)
Civil Rights Movement
11.
Legislation that said separate but equal was fine
a)
Brown v. BOE
b)
Plessy v. Ferguson
c)
Linda v. School
d)
Civil Rights Act of 1957
12.
How do the actions of the Black Panthers differ from the actions of Martin Luther King Jr?
a)
Black Panthers opposed violence 
b)
Black Panthers used violence
c)
Martin Luther King Jr supported violence
13.
Which of the following leaders had a more aggressive approach to the Civil Rights movement - "any means necessary"?
a)
Martin Luther King Jr.
b)
John Lewis
c)
Benjamin E. Mays
d)
Malcolm X
14.
White supremacists of the South supported _______ of public schools
a)
desegregation
b)
segregation
c)
integration
15.
The ultimate goal of the Civil Rights movement was...
a)
Equal rights for immigrants and Native Americans
b)
To promote prejudice among all races
c)
end social, political, and economic injustice
d)
Give women better working conditions
16.
Bringing separate groups together
a)
integration
b)
Looking at this will slow you down
c)
discrimination
d)
segregation
17.
1. Poll taxes, literacy tests and grandfather clauses were ________.
a)
fair voting practices that marchers in Selma wanted the government to guarantee
b)
used to prevent African Americans from voting
c)
used by northern states to register thousands of voters
d)
not used until after the Voting Rights Act was passed
18.
Who signed the Voting Rights Act?
a)
President John F. Kennedy
b)
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
c)
President Richard M. Nixon
d)
President Lyndon B. Johnson
19.

What was a main goal of the Black Panthers?

a)

Push for equal pay

b)

Challenge police brutality in African American communities

c)

Push for equal education opportunities

d)

All of the above

20.

The ruling in Brown v. Board of Education overturned the principle of...

a)

executive privilege

b)

military intervention

c)

separate but equal

d)

states' rights

21.

What finally allowed African-American students to integrate Little Rock's Central High School in late September 1957?

a)

Governor Faubus ordered the crowd outside the school to disperse

b)

President Eisenhower sent federal troops to the school

c)

Local police volunteered to escort the students through the school's front door

d)

None of the above

22.

What was Birmingham’s nickname and why?

a)

"Bombingham" because there had been about 60 unsolved bombings with no one arrested for them.

b)

Blacktown because there was a majority of blacks living there

23.

Who is this?

a)

Medgar Evans

b)

James Farmer

c)

Z. Alexander Looby

d)

Martin Luther King Jr.

24.

Who is this?

a)

Diane Nash

b)

Jo Ann Robinson

c)

Rosa Parks

d)

Jo Ann Nash

25.

Who is this?

a)

Robert Kennedy

b)

John Kennedy

c)

Ted Kennedy

d)

Joseph Kennedy

26.

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

27.

What strategy did teenagers use to integrate restaurants?

a)

Marches

b)

Boycotts

c)

Sit-ins

d)

Riots

28.

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

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