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Black History Month

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is this?

a)

Ruby Barker

b)

Ruby Bridges

c)

Ruby Laurance

d)

Ariana Grande

2.

Why is Ruby famous?

a)

1st African American child in an all-white school

b)

Famous singer

c)

Sat in the front of the bus

d)

Famous athlete

3.

What was the name of Ruby's school?

a)

Beechwood

b)

Martin Luther King Jr. Academy

c)

William Frantz Elementary School

d)

Freedom Elementary School

4.

What grade did Ruby spend all alone?

a)

1st

b)

Kindergarten

c)

2nd

d)

6th

5.

What was Martin Luther King Jr.'s job?

a)

Minister

b)

Teacher

c)

Engineer

d)

Author

6.

What did MLK have?

a)

A dream

b)

4 kids

c)

A wife

d)

Nobel Peace Prize

7.

Which activists worked together

a)

Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

Rosa Parks

c)

Ruby Bridges

d)

Barack Obama

8.

Who was arrested for sticking up for their rights?

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Ruby Bridges

c)

Martin Luther King Jr.

d)

Ghandi

9.

Name the woman who got arrested for sitting in the front of a bus?

a)

Hillary Clinton

b)

Toni Morrison

c)

Ruby Bridges

d)

Rosa Parks

10.

What did it take to change the bus laws?

a)

Bus boycott

b)

Protests

c)

Teamwork

d)

Patience

11.

What does "segregation" mean?

a)

Separated

b)

Unfair

c)

Illegal

d)

Peace

12.

Which places were segregated?

a)

Schools

b)

Parks

c)

Restaurants

d)

Bathrooms

13.

When did the Civil Rights Act pass making segregation illegal?

a)

1964

b)

2020

c)

1884

d)

1990

14.

Where was MLK born?

a)

Montgomery, Alabama

b)

Menlo Park, California

c)

Washington D.C

d)

Atlanta, Georgia

15.

Who is in this picture?

a)

Ruby Bridges

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Rosa Parks

d)

Martin Luther King Jr.

16.

Where was this photo taken?

a)

Montgomery Alabama

b)

Washington D.C

c)

San Francisco

d)

Atlanta Georgia

17.

How many people participated in MLK's famous Freedom March and heard his "I have a dream" speech?

a)

250,000

b)

25,000

c)

2,000,000

d)

100

18.

What do Ruby Bridges, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. have in common?

a)

Civil Rights heroes!

b)

They were friends!

c)

They stood up for equality!

d)

They are African Americans!