WorksheetsKennedy Civil Rights
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Which SC decision brought an end to the doctrine of 'separate but equal'?
Browder v Gayle
Engel V Vitale
Brown v BoE
Baker v Carr
Which PBS documentary introduced America to the Nation of Islam?
The Hate that Hate Produced
Muslims in America
Malcom Speaks
United States of Fear
Who inspired Student activists to form their own organisation in April 1960, which became known as SNCC?
Stokeley Carmichael
Martin Luther King Jr
Claudette Colvin
Ella Baker
What did Truman use to desegregate the US Army?
Executive Agreement
Supreme Court Decision
Executive Order
Congressional Legislation
Which school did the NAACP seek to desegregate in Sept 1957?
Little Rock High School
Little Rock Central High
Faubus Academy
Arkansas State Institute
Who originally came up with the idea for a March on Washington for jobs and freedom in the 1940s?
Bayard Rustin
John Lewis
Whitney Young
A Philip Randolph
Which organisation did Rosa Parks work for prior to her arrest in Dec 1955?
The Urban League
The Women's Political Council
NAACP
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Which of the following didn't launch the first sit-in at Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960?
Franklin McCain
Ezell Blair Jr
Dave Richmond
Jim Lawton
Which university did James Meredith seek to desegregate in 1962 leading to riots?
Ole Miss
University of Alabama
Georgia Tech
Louisiana State
Who killed Emmett Till in 1955?
George Wallace and Ross Barnett
Orval Faubus and Jim Clark
Laurie Pritchett and Eugene Connor
Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam
Where did King launch the Children's Campaign?
Albany
Jackson
Birmingham
Louisville
Which organisation did King establish to unite southern ministers in the black freedom struggle?
SNCC
MIA
SCLC
NAACP
Eisenhower federalised which National Guard?
101st Airborne Division
Arkansas
Alabama
Alaska
Who argued the Brown case and later became a SC Justice?
Thurgood Marshall
Felix Frankfurter
William O Douglas
Earl Warren
Has Mr Pearson met Civil Rights Hero John Lewis?
No
He wishes
Yes
Of course not
