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Civil Rights T/F

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Jim Crow laws were passed to segregate African Americans

a)

T

b)

F

2.

Cesar Chavez signed into law the Voting Rights Act.

a)

T

b)

F

3.

The Brown V. Board of Education case said that schools should be "separate but equal".

a)

T

b)

F

4.

Thurgood Marshall was Linda Brown's lawyer and the first African American Supreme Court Justice.

a)

T

b)

F

5.

Rosa Parks' decision to not give up her seat did not really impact the Civil Rights Movement.

a)

T

b)

F

6.

The March on Washington was the protest where African Americans refused to ride busses in Montgomery, Alabama until segregation of public transportation was outlawed.

a)

T

b)

F

7.

Martin Luther King Jr. believed in gaining civil rights through violent acts.

a)

T

b)

F

8.

The Civil Rights Act banned discrimination of any American because of race, gender, or religion.

a)

T

b)

F

9.

President John F. Kennedy and his younger brother, Robert, were both assassinated in the 1960's.

a)

T

b)

F

10.

The United States' space program landed the first man on the moon in 1969.

a)

T

b)

F

11.

President Truman ordered the desegregation of the military in 1948.

a)

T

b)

F

12.

Thurgood Marshall was the first black student to attend an all white school.

a)

T

b)

F

13.

Martin Luther King Jr. argued in the Brown v. Board of Education case before the Supreme Court.

a)

T

b)

F

14.

Thurgood Marshall organized the Montgomery bus boycott.

a)

T

b)

F

15.

The governor of Arkansas sent the Arkansas National Guard to keep African American students out.

a)

T

b)

F

16.

Ruby Bridges was arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus.

a)

T

b)

F

17.

President Eisenhower sent Army troops to escort students to school.

a)

T

b)

F

18.

Freedom Riders were people who refused to give up their seats on buses.

a)

T

b)

F

19.

The famous Alabama march started in Selma and ended in Washington.

a)

T

b)

F

20.

Boycott means to stop using a service in protest.

a)

T

b)

F