WorksheetsCivil Rights Movement (8Black)
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What state's National Guard escorted the Little Rock Nine to school?
Mississippi
Arkansas
Alabama
Kentucky
How many children were originally part of the group that integrated the schools in Little Rock?
80
9
10
32
In what year did the Little Rock students integrate the schools?
1956
1958
1961
1957
What did the crowd shout as one girl tried to make her way to school?
Lynch her! Lynch her!
Go back to where you came from!
Kill her! Kill her!
Go home!
In what year did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat to a white man?
1954
1955
1956
1953
In what city did the bus boycott occur?
Montgomery, Alabama
Jackson, Mississippi
Selma, Alabama
Nashville, Tennessee
How long did the bus boycott last?
7 months
12 months
13 months
18 months
Who became the leader of the bus boycott and eventually the leader of the Civil Rights Movement?
Richard Nixon
Malcolm X
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King, Jr.
What was the name of the 1896 Supreme Court case that said whites and blacks could legally be segregated?
Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
Miranda v. Arizona
KKK v. Mississippi
What was the ruling in the Brown v. Board of Education case?
Business were no longer allowed to separate whites and blacks.
Schools were no longer allowed to segregate.
Blacks and whites could legally marry.
Busses could no longer make blacks sit in the back.
When was the decision handed down in the Brown v. Board of Education case?
1953
1954
1955
1956
According to the Supreme Court, what amendment to the Constitution was being broken by not allowing blacks to attend white schools?
5th
9th
13th
14th
Emmett Till was murdered by two white men in this town.
Money, Mississippi
Jackson, Mississippi
Newton, Mississippi
Pace, Mississippi
Why was Emmett Till murdered?
He beat up a white person.
He stole from a store.
He whistled at a white woman.
He swore at two men.
The murder of Emmett Till is said to have been the spark that ignited the Civil Rights Movement. In what year was Emmett murdered?
1952
1953
1954
1955
Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi while visiting relatives. Where was Emmett from?
Detroit
New York
Cleveland
Chicago
Who was Jim Crow?
A slave.
The governor of Georgia.
A theater character.
A slave owner.
What is not an example of public accomodation?
Schools
Restaurants
Theaters
Water Fountains
The Jim Crow laws, or Black Codes, were meant to undermine which amendment?
13th
14th
15th
All of the above.
What was used to prevent blacks from voting?
Poll Tax
Poll Test
Grandfather Clause
All of the above.
