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WorksheetsCivil Right Movement Assessment
Total questions: 96
Worksheet time: 58mins
Appealing to many African Americans' anger and frustration over a lack of social and economic power, _____________________ predicted a militant approach to civil rights.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Malcolm X
Medgar Evans
Fannie Lou Hamner
What did Malcolm X believe was the answer to problems between blacks and whites?
education
imperialism
nationalism
separatism
Who founded the Black Panther Party ?
Huey Newton
Malcolm X
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
Bobby Seale
As early as the 1940's, A. Philip Randolph, an African American labor activist, called for a march on Washington to outlaw racial discrimination in federal employment. Which President did Mr. Randolph pressure?
Ronald Reagan
Harry Truman
Jimmy Carter
Franklin Roosevelt
The author Richard Wright had also published a book called Black Power in 1954 the purpose of this book was to examine:
the significance of ties between Africans and Eastern Europeans and the centrality of decolonization in black power ideology.
the significance of ties between Africans and African Americans and the centrality of decolonization in black power ideology.
the significance of ties between Northern Europeans and Germans decolonization in black power ideology.
the significance of ties between religious factions in America and how this contributed to the decolonization in black power ideology.
Due to the Panthers’ militant rhetoric and armed self-defense, the state of _____________________ imposed strictures on open-carry gun laws, and the FBI employed its counter-intelligence program (COINTELPRO) to combat what it perceived as the Black Panther Party’s subversive threat to American democracy.
California
Washington D.C.
Texas
Oregon
According to The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense they created a Ten-Point Platform and Program choose which items below are included in the Ten-Points Program:
We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present day society.We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace.
We want all Black men to be exempt from military service.
We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present day society.
We want freedom for all Black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails.
On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X :
received the honorary community award.
opened the second chapter for The Black Panthers.
was assassinated by members of the Nation of Islam.
arrested and charged for conspiracy against the American Government.
According to the Introduction of the Civil Rights Movement is the statement below correct ?
African Americans continue to be incarcerated at a rate greatly disproportionate to their percentage of the population.
True
False
According to the Introduction to the Civil Rights Movement is the following statement below true or false?
Black men are the most frequent victims of police brutality,while poverty rates among black children and families are lower than among either whites or Latinos.
True
False
Choose the correct answers below as discussed in the Introduction to the Civil Rights Movement
Changes in the 20-21st century have eliminated systemic inequalities in institutions like public education.
Stereotypical portrayals of African Americans remain prevalent in popular culture.
As successful as the Civil Rights Movement was, there still remains unfinished business in the struggle for full equality.
Many black Americans suffer from poor access to social services
Based on the picture, what conclusion can be drawn about the court decision in Brown V. Board of Education?
The Supreme Court ensured that schools would remain segregated for another decade.
The Supreme Court broke the tradition of segregation and pushed for integration.
The Supreme Court sealed the deal by making black schools equal to white schools.
The Supreme Court denied that black schools were not the same as white schools.
What was one way that Georgia protested having to integrate its public schools?
Georgia fired the Board of Education.
Georgia Legislators voted to change the state flag to include the Confederate battle emblem.
Georgia Legislators closed public schools until the courts ordered them re-opened.
Georgia did nothing to protest and schools were integrated without incident.
What organization was formed in reaction to the arrest of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Their purpose was to coordinate protest activities across the South. The first President of this organization
was Martin Luther King Jr.
CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee)
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), headquartered in Atlanta,
Was organized by activists posing as students.
Was actually a militant group
Focused its activities entirely on school integration
Was a group of students who helped organize protests, boycotts, and voter registration.
The act that prohibited racial discrimination in employment and labor unions and in public facilities was the
national Labor Unions Act of 1955
Equal Employment Opportunity Act
Fair Housing Act of 1954
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. worked very hard to do away with racial segregation in the 1950s and 1960s. What was Dr. King’s strategy for promoting social change?
Dr. King believed that if African Americans received a good education they would be accepted as equals.
Dr. King encouraged people to protest segregation by staging attacks on public buildings using violence.
Dr. King developed a nonviolent approach based on the writings of Henry David Thoreau and the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.
Dr. King believed that every person had equal rights and should gain quality by any means possible.
In August 1963, civil rights leaders organized a massive rally in the nation's capital to urge passage of President Kennedy's civil rights bill. The high point came when MLK Jr., gave his "I Have a Dream" speech to more than 200,000 marchers in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
Albany Movement
March on Washington
Sibley Commission
This picture represents the kind of 20th century discrimination that was to be eliminated by
"Jim Crow Laws"
The 13th Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The 15th Amendment
What became known as “Bloody Sunday”?
The day Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at a hotel in
Memphis, Tennessee.
The day MLK gave his “Dream” speech to end the March on Washington.
The day Medgar Evers was assassinated by a white supremacist
and Klansman in Mississippi.
The day John Lewis led marchers in Selma who were beaten by Alabama State Troopers as they reached the end of the Pettus Bridge.
Segregation was upheld (made legal) in the "separate but equal" court case known as...
Bethel v Fraser
Engel v Vitale
Plessy v Ferguson
Mapp v Ohio
What is one thing the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) wanted?
they wanted to end segregation in schools
they wanted to have nicer jobs
they wanted schools to stay segregated
What was the effect of the Brown v Board of Education court case?
states have the right to choose if they want to segregate schools
schools had to provide books of equal quality to blacks and whites
African Americans were given the right to vote
segregation became illegal and schools became integrated
Who is famous for not giving up her seat on a bus to a white man?
Hillary Clinton
Rosa Parks
Minnie Mouse
Mrs. Pac-Man
- Montgomery Bus Boycotts
- Freedom Rides
- Sit-Ins
- March on Washington
All of the above could be listed under which heading:
Actions Taken for Civil Rights
Amusement Park Rides
Supreme Court Cases
Events of the American Revolution
The purpose of Freedom Summer was to
register black people to vote
march on Washington
desegregate schools
What strategy did Martin Luther King, Jr. use to fight for black civil rights?
violent revolution
education
non-violent protest
running for political office
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- 24th Amendment
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
The 3 laws listed above are all considered to be...
Failures
Civil Rights Gains / Successes
ancient history
Progressive Era Reforms
In addition to African Americans, what other groups were fighting for equal rights and/or self-determination in the 1960s and 1970s?
Chicano/Mexican Americans
Native Americans
Asian Americans
LGBTQ
all of the above
Who took steps to petition the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to investigate charges that the United States was violating not just the civil rights, but also the human rights, of African Americans?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Nelson Mandela
Eleanor Roosevelt
Malcolm X
Which of the following is TRUE of Rosa Parks, the woman who helped spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 after being arrested for defying the city’s bus segregation laws?
She refused to give up her seat to a white man because she was tired.
Her refusal to give up her seat on December 1, 1955 was her first act of resistance against segregated buses.
As Secretary of the local NAACP chapter and leader of its Youth Group, she had an important history of activism before her action that began the bus boycott.
At the time of this incident, she was an elderly seamstress who had never been politically active.
After Rosa Parks was arrested, the Montgomery Bus Boycott was first set in motion when:
The Women’s Political Council, under the leadership of Jo Ann Robinson, distributed 35,000 leaflets urging 42,000 black residents of Montgomery to boycott public transportation.
Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech to Montgomery’s largest black congregation, urging that the buses be boycotted until the bus company agreed to integrate them.
Civil rights lawyers from the Justice Department came to Montgomery and convinced prominent African American ministers to initiate the boycott.
Leaders of Montgomery’s black business community urged their employees not to ride the buses.
What was the name of the movement that Rosa Parks participated in call?
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Sit-ins
Segregation
March on Washington
What was the name of the famous speech that King gave a part of the walk on Washington?
"Gettysburg Address"
"I Have a Dream"
"Duties of American Citizenship"
"Their Finest Hour"
What was the name of a set of laws that denied African-Americans certain rights like voting?
Segregation
Miranda Rights
Jim Crow Laws
3/5 compromise
Which President pass the and signed into law the Civil Rights act?
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
John F Kennedy
Lyndon B Johnson
When did the Civil Rights Law get signed?
1964
1492
1981
1977
Which president sent the 101st airborne to Little Rock, Arkansas to protect nine all black students that were attending an all-white School?
Dwight D Eisenhower
John F Kennedy
Lyndon B Johnson
Richard Nixon
What was the name of the organization that King created that held sit-ins at lunch counters?
Student nonviolent coordinating committee (SNCC)
Black Panthers
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
UNCF
When was the Voting Rights Act signed into Law?
1965
1980
1764
1920
What was the name of the organization that college students were trained to do certain nonviolent protest?
SNCC
UNCF
UNICEF
SCLC
What is the name of one of the organizations that King helped get started?
Southern Christian Leadership conference (SCLC)
Rainbow Coalition
United Nergo College Fund
Black Panthers
Which two states had the most violence in them during the Civil Rights Movement?
Mississippi and Alabama
Kansas and Oklahoma
Colorado and Kansas
North Dakota and South Dakota
Which state was the last state to integrate blacks?
Mississippi
Kansas
Oklahoma
Colorado
Segregation in schools was declared unconstitutional because of...
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
the Children's March
the March on Washington
During the _____________, civil rights groups worked to expand black voting in the South by registering black voters in Mississippi.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Children's March
Freedom Summer
March on Washington
A ___________________ required a person to prove they could read before they could register to vote.
literacy test
sit-in
economic boycott
poll tax
Based on the idea of "separate but equal," segregation was declared legal by
Brown v. Board of Education
the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Plessy v. Ferguson
the March on Washington
This law banned all literacy tests that kept many African Americans from voting.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Civil Rights Movement
24th Amendment
The goal of a ________________ is to encourage a business to change by having people refuse to buy their products.
literacy test
poll tax
economic boycott
sit-in
What was the primary purpose of the 14th Amendment?
To grant the right to vote to women
To protect the rights of American Indians in the West
To establish federal reservations for American Indians
To limit the ability of state governments to restrict individual rights
The excerpt below is from the Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).
If the civil and political rights of both races be equal, one cannot be inferior to the other civility of politically. If one race be inferior to the other socially, the constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane.
What was the impact of the Plessy v. Ferguson decision in this excerpt?
Racial segregation in the South would be tolerated for another half century
Southern state governments were forced to end their practice of racial integration
State governments had to ensure the economic and social equality of all individuals
State governments would no longer provide separate facilities to members of different races
Who was Emmett Till?
He was an African American teen
He was a white man
He was a African American man
He was mexican
What happened 100 days after Emmett Till died?
Martin Luther King Jr. recognized him.
Rosa Parks did not give up her seat for a white man and was arrested.
Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous ¨I have a Dream¨ speech
What was Emmett Tills mothers name?
Mamie Till
Luize Till
Carol Till
Mary Till
In which Southern state was Emmett Till murdered?
Arkansas
Florida
Tennessee
Mississippi
What decision did Emmett's mother make that impacted the Civil Rights movement?
Spoke out on the news
Testified in court
Had an open casket funeral
Marched in Mississippi
What happened to the two men that brutally killed Emmett Till?
They received the death penalty
Nothing, they were acquitted
Life in jail, no parole
They were murdered
Why did the jury acquit Milam and Bryant of the murder of Emmett Till?
The jury ruled that Emmett deserved to die.
Mose Wright identified Milam and Bryant.
The body was not actually Emmitts
The all white jury sided with Bryant and Milam.
What was the purpose of the March on Washington?
to promote equality in jobs & employment
to push for an end to segregation
to outlaw racial discrimination
ALL answer choices
There was a growth in political engagement by minorities with the passage of legislation to end-
Literacy tests, voter intimidation, and gerrymandering
Poll taxes, sit-ins, and freedom rides
Labor unions, marches, and protests
Literacy tests, integration, and desegregation
Founder and leader of the Black Panther Party
MLK
Huey P. Newton
Thurgood Marshall
Malcom X
These are examples of how African American soliders were treated when they returned home from war.
jim crow laws were enforcorced
segregation
harsh social treatmeat and unfair business practices
All the above
____________ in general did not enjoy the prosperity many felt during the post war years.
African Americans
Americans
investors
Ku Klux Klan
When Black veterans returned home _________ started again in the south
race riots
jingles
regime
free trade
Who set up Black Power?
Malcolm X
Bobby Seale
Tommie Smith
Stokely Carmichael
When were the Black Panthers set up?
1964
1965
1966
1967
Were the Black Panthers willing to work with white people?
Yes
No
What did the Black Panthers NOT do?
Organise free breakfast clubs
Organise free medical clinics
Patrol the streets
Organise sit-ins
The Black Panthers wrote ...
An Eight Point Programme
A Nine Point Programme
A Ten Point Programme
A Twelve Point Programme
Why did Oliver Brown sue the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas in 1950?
He wanted his daughter to be able to attend the local school (which was all white), rather than forcing her to travel a long distance to an all black school.
He didn't want his daughter to have to attend the all-black school a few blocks from his house.
Who was the lead lawyer in the Brown v. Board of Education case?
Ida B. Wells
W.E.B. Du Bois
Martin Luther King
Thurgood Marshall
What was the name of the organization that included many lawyers and others familiar with the law?
C.O.R.E.
N.A.A.C.P.
Brown vs. Board of Education
U.S. Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall did NOT make this argument:
Segregation hurts has a negative psychological impact on American children
Segregation made us look like a backwards country (like Nazi Germany)
Segregation prevented violence between the races
Segregation hurt children's ability to get a good education AND, as a result, American society as a whole
The Supreme Court said: "We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ________________________has no place.
"separate but equal"
segregation
Jim Crow Laws
de facto
In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled the schools needed to integrate (allow for mixed races) "with all deliberate speed."
What happened?
Schools throughout the country immediately followed the decision of the Supreme Court.
American schools were integrated by the end of the year
Very little happened. In most places, it took years for the U.S. government to enforce integration
Essentially how many African Americans served in the military?
Between 225,000 - 270,000 thousand
Less than a million
More than a million
All total 479,023 thousand
The "Double V" campaign by the Pittsburgh Courier
helped create:
victory over fascism
medical advancements
Pittsburgh first transit system
a pathway to equal citizenship
Mississippian Medgar Evers, was responsible for what ?
purchasing an automobile in Mississippi
integration within University of Mississippi law school
convincing black veterans to go to the courthouse and try to register to vote in 1946.
Poll taxes reduction in 1945
Troops remained in Little Rock for the 1957-1958 school year. After the troops were withdrawn, however, Governor Faubus closed Little Rock’s public schools for the 1958-1959 school year.
True
False
Massive Resistance” persisted: by 1964 fewer than _____ percent of black students in the South attended school with white students.
18
2
36
7
What does CORE stand for?
Campaign for Outsiders and Racial Empowerment
California Obstacles and Radical Education
Congress for Racial Equality
Congress Oversight Reaction Entity
