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WorksheetsCivil Rights movement
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What is not an example of segregation?
Having "white people only" water fountains and "black people only" water fountains
Forcing African Americans to attend different schools than white students
Refusing to shop in a store
Making African Americans sit in the back of city buses
What is Rosa Parks known for?
Refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a public bus
Leading a civil rights march
Giving inspiring speeches about the civil rights movement
Being friends with the President
What did the Supreme Court rule in Brown v. Board of Education?
There can no longer be segregated restaurants
Segregation in public schools is illegal
Everyone can have the job they want
People cannot be racist
Thurgood Marshall
was against integration in public schools
was the lawyer who helped make segregation illegal
was the president
was a leader of the Montgomery bus boycott
Where did nine African American students try to integrate into a public school?
Chicago, IL
Little Rock, AR
Memphis, TN
Atlanta, GA
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott protesting?
that blacks had to sit separately from whites on the bus
that the buses did not allow blacks on the bus at all
that the buses were too expensive to ride
that blacks were not allowed to drive the buses
What type of protesting did Martin Luther King Jr. believe in?
nonviolent protesting
riots
violent protesting
Who led the bus boycott that Rosa Parks was apart of?
Malcolm X
Thurgood Marshall
Emmit Til
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
Check all of the examples of Jim Crow Laws
Poll Taxes- you must pay to vote
Literacy Tests- you must be able to read to vote
You cannot eat in certain restaurants if you are an African American
Black people and white people cannot use the same public restrooms
What was the March on Washington?
A peaceful march in Washington DC where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I have a dream" speech.
A 4th of July parade
A meeting in Alabama for the leaders of the civil rights movement
A march in Washington DC organized by President Kennedy
