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Kennedy Civil Rights

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which SC decision brought an end to the doctrine of 'separate but equal'?

a)

Browder v Gayle

b)

Engel V Vitale

c)

Brown v BoE

d)

Baker v Carr

2.

Which PBS documentary introduced America to the Nation of Islam?

a)

The Hate that Hate Produced

b)

Muslims in America

c)

Malcom Speaks

d)

United States of Fear

3.

Who inspired Student activists to form their own organisation in April 1960, which became known as SNCC?

a)

Stokeley Carmichael

b)

Martin Luther King Jr

c)

Claudette Colvin

d)

Ella Baker

4.

What did Truman use to desegregate the US Army?

a)

Executive Agreement

b)

Supreme Court Decision

c)

Executive Order

d)

Congressional Legislation

5.

Which school did the NAACP seek to desegregate in Sept 1957?

a)

Little Rock High School

b)

Little Rock Central High

c)

Faubus Academy

d)

Arkansas State Institute

6.

Who originally came up with the idea for a March on Washington for jobs and freedom in the 1940s?

a)

Bayard Rustin

b)

John Lewis

c)

Whitney Young

d)

A Philip Randolph

7.

Which organisation did Rosa Parks work for prior to her arrest in Dec 1955?

a)

The Urban League

b)

The Women's Political Council

c)

NAACP

d)

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car

8.

Which of the following didn't launch the first sit-in at Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960?

a)

Franklin McCain

b)

Ezell Blair Jr

c)

Dave Richmond

d)

Jim Lawton

9.

Which university did James Meredith seek to desegregate in 1962 leading to riots?

a)

Ole Miss

b)

University of Alabama

c)

Georgia Tech

d)

Louisiana State

10.

Who killed Emmett Till in 1955?

a)

George Wallace and Ross Barnett

b)

Orval Faubus and Jim Clark

c)

Laurie Pritchett and Eugene Connor

d)

Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam

11.

Where did King launch the Children's Campaign?

a)

Albany

b)

Jackson

c)

Birmingham

d)

Louisville

12.

Which organisation did King establish to unite southern ministers in the black freedom struggle?

a)

SNCC

b)

MIA

c)

SCLC

d)

NAACP

13.

Eisenhower federalised which National Guard?

a)

101st Airborne Division

b)

Arkansas

c)

Alabama

d)

Alaska

14.

Who argued the Brown case and later became a SC Justice?

a)

Thurgood Marshall

b)

Felix Frankfurter

c)

William O Douglas

d)

Earl Warren

15.

Has Mr Pearson met Civil Rights Hero John Lewis?

a)

No

b)

He wishes

c)

Yes

d)

Of course not