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Ruby Bridges

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Can you identify this child?

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Katherine Johnson

c)

Ruby Bridges

d)

Harriet Tubman

2.

What was so special about her?

a)

She was the first child to go to school.

b)

She was the first Black child to go to school.

c)

She was the first Black child to have gone to a white school.

3.

In which part of the USA did she go to school?

a)

North

b)

South

4.

When was she born?

a)

08/09/1954

b)

09/08/1954

c)

09/11/1964

5.

In which state was she born?

a)

Florida

b)

Mississippi

c)

Texas

d)

Louisiana

6.

Her parents took part in a request from the ...

a)

YMCA

b)

NAABP

c)

NAACP

7.

NAACP means:

a)

National Association for the Abolition of Colored People

b)

National Abomination for the Advancement of Colored People

c)

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

8.

When was this association founded?

a)

in 1899

b)

in 1909

c)

in 1919

d)

in 1959

9.

The request was that a black child should go to school for white people.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

10.

How many children took part in this request?

a)

1

b)

3

c)

5

d)

6

11.

How did parents welcome Ruby?

a)

They took their children away from that school.

b)

They demonstrated with their children against Ruby.

c)

They welcomed her warmly with candies and chocolate.

d)

They encouraged her to come back to study with their children.

12.

She was in a special class with one teacher.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

13.

What was her teacher's name?

a)

Barbara Streisand

b)

Barbara Stephie

c)

Barbara Henry

14.

Which American President mobilized four US Marshalls to protect her?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

c)

Eisenhower

d)

Barack Obama

15.

Ruby Bridges founded an association to promote the values of...

a)

respect and intolerance

b)

respect and obedience

c)

respect and tolerance for Colored people only

d)

respect and tolerance for all differences