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Civil Rights movement

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is not an example of segregation?

a)

Having "white people only" water fountains and "black people only" water fountains

b)

Forcing African Americans to attend different schools than white students

c)

Refusing to shop in a store

d)

Making African Americans sit in the back of city buses

2.

What is Rosa Parks known for?

a)

Refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a public bus

b)

Leading a civil rights march

c)

Giving inspiring speeches about the civil rights movement

d)

Being friends with the President

3.

What did the Supreme Court rule in Brown v. Board of Education?

a)

There can no longer be segregated restaurants

b)

Segregation in public schools is illegal

c)

Everyone can have the job they want

d)

People cannot be racist

4.

Thurgood Marshall

a)

was against integration in public schools

b)

was the lawyer who helped make segregation illegal

c)

was the president

d)

was a leader of the Montgomery bus boycott

5.

Where did nine African American students try to integrate into a public school?

a)

Chicago, IL

b)

Little Rock, AR

c)

Memphis, TN

d)

Atlanta, GA

6.

What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott protesting?

a)

that blacks had to sit separately from whites on the bus

b)

that the buses did not allow blacks on the bus at all

c)

that the buses were too expensive to ride

d)

that blacks were not allowed to drive the buses

7.

What type of protesting did Martin Luther King Jr. believe in?

a)

nonviolent protesting

b)

riots

c)

violent protesting

8.

Who led the bus boycott that Rosa Parks was apart of?

a)

Malcolm X

b)

Thurgood Marshall

c)

Emmit Til

d)

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

9.

Check all of the examples of Jim Crow Laws

a)

Poll Taxes- you must pay to vote

b)

Literacy Tests- you must be able to read to vote

c)

You cannot eat in certain restaurants if you are an African American

d)

Black people and white people cannot use the same public restrooms

10.

What was the March on Washington?

a)

A peaceful march in Washington DC where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I have a dream" speech.

b)

A 4th of July parade

c)

A meeting in Alabama for the leaders of the civil rights movement

d)

A march in Washington DC organized by President Kennedy