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The Civil Rights Movement

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The American Civil Rights Movement was about having universal_______for all people.

a)

laws

b)

constitutions

c)

rights

d)

segregation

2.

What was the name of the African American student who was barred from attending school closer to her home?

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Linda Brown

c)

Dr. Martin Luther King

d)

Jo Ann Robinson

3.

In what state did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat to a white passenger?

a)

Montgomery, Alabama

b)

Dallas, Texas

c)

Jackson, Mississippi

d)

New Orleans, Louisiana

4.

Which word means to stop buying or using a product or service?

a)

purchase

b)

boycott

c)

segregation

d)

movement

5.

In what year did the Supreme court ban segregation on buses?

a)

1964

b)

1956

c)

2010

d)

1963

6.

Which word means to separate or isolate a race, class, or ethnic group?

a)

boycott

b)

segregation

c)

supreme

d)

regulations

7.

Who delivered the famous "I have a Dream" speech in Washington D.C. in 1963?

a)

Thurgood Marshall

b)

Dr. Martin Luther King

c)

Tim and Moby

d)

Rosa Parks

8.

In what year was the Civil Rights Act created outlawing discrimination based on race, religion, sex or ethnicity.

a)

2020

b)

1964

c)

1860

d)

1924

9.

Which lawsuit brought before the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional?

a)

Brown versus the Board of Eduction

b)

Tim versus Moby

c)

Mickey Mouse versus Donald Duck

d)

School versus Supreme Court Ban

10.

In what year during The March on Washington did Dr. Martin Luther King deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech?

a)

2010

b)

1996

c)

1963

d)

1806

11.

In what year was the Voting Rights Act, stating that citizens could not be denied the right to vote based on race pass?

a)

1955

b)

1964

c)

1965

d)

1968

12.

In what year was Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to relinquish her seat to a white passenger?

a)

1955

b)

1964

c)

1965

d)

1968

13.

What year did President Lyndon Johnson pass the Civil Rights Act outlawing segregation and the Jim Crow Laws of the south?

a)

1955

b)

1964

c)

1965

d)

1968

14.

What year was the Fair Housing Act outlawing discrimination in selling or renting houses put in place?

a)

1955

b)

1964

c)

1965

d)

1968

15.

People who thought slavery was morally wrong.

(a)  

16.

Laws that kept black seperated from whites.

(a)  

17.

He freed the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation.

(a)  

18.

He worked with Ida B. Wells to found the NAACP.

(a)  

19.

In the 1950s the Supreme Court ruled that (a)   of shcools was illegal.

20.

Write two things you learned today about the African American Civil Rights Movement.

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