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WorksheetsCUSH: Civil Rights - Part 1
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 21mins
This lawyer helped argue for Brown in Brown v. Board of Education.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Thurgood Marshall
Oveta Culp Hobby
Lyndon B. Johnson
Bus rides to the South to ensure desegregation was enforced are called
Rosa Parks
Jim Crow Laws
Freedom Rides
The Great Society
Who is the Civil rights leader who founded CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)
James L Farmer
Thurgood Marshall
W.E.B. Dubois
Julian Baker
Which national organization that helped fight for equal rights for African Americans?
LULAC
NCAA
NRA
NAACP
Who was arrested for refusing to move on a bus? The result led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Claudette Colvin
Rosa Parks
Stokely Carmichael
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Civil Rights Movement opposed Plessy v. Ferguson and its premise of?
separate but equal
equal rights for all races
different pay for men and women
voting rights for women
In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme ruled that...
separate but equal schools were unconstitutional
public schools should be segregated
all children should attend public schools
schools should be given equal amounts of money
Where was Central High located?
Little Rock, Arkansas
Boulder, Colorado
Stonecrest, Georgia
Jackson, Mississippi
What year did the Little Rock Nine try to enter Central High School for the first time?
2001
1910
1927
1957
How did President Dwight Eisenhower respond to the Arkansas Governor?
He had him arrested.
He sent 1000 paratroopers to escort the students at school.
He yelled at him and took away his governor position.
He didn't do anything.
The Freedom Riders were a group of African Americans and Whites who rode buses to..?
Encourage A.A.'s to leave the south and move north
to protest racial segregation throughout the south
to promote membership in the KKK
to gain support for the Vietnam war
Which governor tried to prevent 9 African American students from entering Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas ?
George Wallace
Orval Faubus
Strom Thurmond
George Patterson
Which Chief Justice ruled that segregation in schools violated the 14th amendment in the Brown V. Board of Education ?
Earl Warren
John Roberts
Jack Ruby
Warren Burger
In which direction did the "Freedom Rides" travel?
North to South
East to West
South to North
West to East
Which phrase in the Brown v. Board of Education ruling would prove to be the most controversial?
"in the field of public education"
"separate educational facilities are inherently unequal"
"a right that must be made available to all on equal terms"
"with all deliberate speed"
T/F: President Eisenhower ignored the crisis in Little Rock because he did not want to take a stand on school desegregation.
True
False
The Governor, Ross Barnett, personally came to the registrar's office to deny him admission to the University of Mississippi
John Lewis
Martin Luther King
James Meredith
Thurgood Marshall
-Supreme Court case in which justices agreed that an African American must be admitted at the University of Texas School of Law
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Sweatt v. Painter
Sherman Antitrust Act
A group of college students who held sit-ins at segregated restaurants along with promoted voter registration:
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Children of MLK Together
All Civil Rights Activists United
Tuskegee Coalition
Which organization was Martin Luther King Jr. the president of?
SCLT
SCCC
SNCC
SCLC
