WorksheetsSS8H11 Evaluate role of Georgia in the modern civil rights
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Which controversial flag flew over Georgia from 1956-2001? The flag was controversial due to the flag’s prominent Confederate Battle emblem.
Which Supreme Court cases struck down the policy of separate but equal and mandated the desegregation of public schools?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Baker v. Carr
Gray v. Sanders
What was the investigation by lawyer John Sibley to determine what should be done about integration in the state?
1956 State Flag
Sibley Commission
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
What was the organized civil rights protest led by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, whose primary objective was to desegregate the city of Albany, Georgia, and the surrounding community?
March on Washington
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Albany Movement
Which federal legislation forbade discrimination on the basis of race and sex in hiring, firing, and promotion?
Civil Rights Act
Lend-Lease Act
Voting Rights Act
Stamp Act
Who was the important civil rights leader and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize?
Maddox, Lester
Lewis, John
Allen, Ivan
King, Jr., Martin Luther
Who was the leader in the Civil Rights movement; leader of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee; U.S. Representative (1986-present)?
Lewis, John
King, Jr., Martin Luther
Maddox, Lester
Hartsfield, William B.
What was the famous jobs and civil rights march led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? The famous “I Have a Dream” speech was given at the event.
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
Albany Movement
March on Washington
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Which civil rights organization by college students urged non-violent protests to gain integration? The group became more militant in the late 1960’s.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
Albany Movement
March on Washington
Who was one of the last openly segregationist politicians in Georgia (Governor)?
Maddox, Lester
King, Jr., Martin Luther
Lewis, John
Hartsfield, William B.
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution were undermined by all of the following EXCEPT?
Jim Crow Laws.
literacy tests.
Plessy v. Ferguson.
Brown v. Board of Education.
What effect did the decision in Brown v. Board of Education have on colleges in the South?
It had no effect on colleges.
It integrated colleges immediately.
It created new colleges in the South.
It led to a series of battles over integration.
The cartoon seen here made reference to what Supreme Court decision?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Gideon v. Wainwright
Brown v. Board of Education
Regents of the Univ. of California v. Bakke
Which statement BEST describes why the Georgia State Flag changed designs?
It was changed as soon as the Reconstruction Era came to an end.
It was changed as a reaction to the desegregation movement of the era.
It was changed because most Georgians supported remembering the Confederacy.
It was changed to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the end of the Civil War.
The 1956 Georgia state flag caused controversy for nearly forty years because it?
changed Georgia’s state seal.
was not approved by the governor.
bore the Confederate battle flag.
was not flown in front of municipal building.
Which group was established in Georgia in 1960 to gather state residents' sentiments regarding desegregation and report back to the governor?
the Sibley Commission
the Congress on Racial Equality
the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), formed in the 1960s, was known for its organized, nonviolent sit-ins to protest?
unequal pay.
Jim Crow laws.
violence against students.
the unfair treatment of women.
The "Civil Rights Movement" of the 1950s and 1960s is MOST associated with which group?
women
children
Native Americans
African Americans
At the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, the group SNCC would have been MOST LIKELY to?
stage non-violent protest at lunch counters in the American south.
file lawsuits on behalf of people who were victims of racial discrimination.
encourage armed confrontation with those who would oppress African Americans.
focus on "black power" by protesting African American involvement in the Vietnam War.
Which person is most closely associated with the principle of nonviolent resistance?
Malcolm X
John F. Kennedy
Stokely Carmichael
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was the first president of this organization that used African-American churches to coordinate the civil rights movement. What was the organization called?
CORE
SCLC
SNCC
NAACP
Which event involved the actions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Election of 1968
the Social Security Act
Vietnam War Protests (1970)
the March on Washington (1963)
Which of these Civil Rights-era situations was unique because its goal was the desegregation of an entire community?
the Little Rock 9
the Albany Movement
the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
Born in Alabama in 1940, Participated in the Freedom Rides of the 1960s, Leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and Beaten during the "Bloody Sunday" protest in Selma in 1965. Who is being described here?
John Lewis
Andrew Young
Maynard Jackson
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Which Georgia governor appointed more African Americans to government positions than all previous Georgia governors combined?
Jimmy Carter
Lester Maddox
George Busbee
Earnest Vandiver
