WorksheetsCh 28 Civil Rights Chapter quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 41mins
When did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat on the bus?
August 22, 1954
October 15, 1951
December 1, 1955
November 1, 1954
What legislation said: "Authorized federal supervision of voter registration in states and counties where fewer than half of voting age residents were registered; outlawed literacy and other discriminatory tests in voter registration
1948 Executive Order 9981
1955 Civil Rights Act
1941 Executive Order 8802
1965 Voter Rights Act
What three states had major sit-in according to the chapter?
Alabama, Florida, Missouri
South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee
North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia
Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama
What does SCLC stand for?
South Carolina Legal Commission
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
South Carolina Legal Convocation
Southern Conference of Legal Christians
In 1956, 101 congressmen from the former Confederate states urged their states to refuse compliance with desegregation. What did the states sign?
Civil Rights Act
SLCL
Souther Manifesto
Voting Act
What court case set up the "separate but equal" statute allowing segregation?
Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
Morgan v. Virginia
Meredith v. University of Mississippi
What does CORE mean?
Christian Organization of Racial Equality
Congress of Racial Equality
Christians of Racial Equality
Commission of Racial Equality
What did Jackie Robinson do for African Americans?
broke the color barrier in major league baseball, winning rookie-of-the-year honors with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947
won the Nobel Peace Prize for arranging the 1948 Arab-Israeli truce.
wrote poetry in the Harlem Renaissance in the 1940s
wrote the first book published by an African American author in 1948
What year did a coalition of workers led by SNCC launch the Freedom Summer project?
1961
1963
1964
1960
What was the Freedom Summer about?
A comprehensive civil rights legislation, backed by the power
of the federal government.
An encouraged resistance to the "oppressive power of the United States," and an angry mob of several thousand whites, many of them armed, laid siege to the campus.
A manifesto demanding an end to racist hiring practices and segregated public accommodations and the creation of a biracial committee to oversee desegregation.
A voter registration effort in rural Mississippi organized by black and white civil rights workers.
Who decided to launch a new campaign against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama?
Malcolm X and the NOI
Martin L. King, Jr. and the SNCC
Prichett and the NAACP
Martin L. King, Jr. and the SCLC
What was the Albany Movement about?
A coalition formed of activists from SNCC, the NAACP, and other local groups
A division created that authorized the attorney general to seek court injunctions to protect people denied their right to vote
A black student activists group that underlined the generational and radical aspects of the Civil Rights movement.
King recognized the need to exploit the momentum of the movement and brought together nearly 100 black ministers to found the movement.
The SCLC called on black people to...
understand that nonviolence is not a symbol of weakness or cowardice, but demonstrated, nonviolent resistance transforms weakness into strength and breeds courage in the face of danger
understand the tense controversy over school integration becoming a case of state versus federal power
petition the Interstate Commerce Commission to issue clear rules prohibiting segregation on interstate carriers
understand the strategy was to fill the city jails with protesters, boycott downtown department stores, and enrage Public Safety Commissioner
What year did these things happen?
SCLC initiates campaign to desegregate Birmingham,
Alabama; Medgar Evers, leader of the Mississippi NAACP, is assassinated; March on Washington; Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his historic "I Have a Dream" speech.
1960
1961
1962
1963
What year did Brown v. Board of Education happen where Supreme Court ruled segregated schools inherently unequal
1953
1954
1955
1956
What year did Sit-in movement begins as four college students sit at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and ask
to be served; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) founded; and the Board of Indian Commissioners is created
1958
1959
1960
1961
What year did the following happen in?
SCLC and SNCC begin voter registration campaign
in Selma, Alabama; Malcolm X is assassinated; Civil rights marchers walk from Selma to Montgomery; Voting Rights Act is signed into law; and the Immigration and Nationality Act passed
1962
1963
1964
1965
When did the Freedom Rides begin?
1959
1960
1961
1962
What legislation banned racial discrimination in defense industry and government offices; established Fair Employment Practices Committee to investigate violations
Civil Rights Act
Executive Order 9981
Voting Rights Act
Executive Order 8802
What year did these things happen?
Supreme Court rules that school desegregation must
proceed "with all deliberate speed"; Montgomery bus boycott begins
1954
1955
1956
1957
