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Ch 28 Civil Rights Chapter quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 41mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat on the bus?

a)

August 22, 1954

b)

October 15, 1951

c)

December 1, 1955

d)

November 1, 1954

2.

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

a)

1948 Executive Order 9981

b)

1955 Civil Rights Act

c)

1941 Executive Order 8802

d)

1965 Voter Rights Act

3.

What three states had major sit-in according to the chapter?

a)

Alabama, Florida, Missouri

b)

South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee

c)

North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia

d)

Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama

4.

What does SCLC stand for?

a)

South Carolina Legal Commission

b)

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

c)

South Carolina Legal Convocation

d)

Southern Conference of Legal Christians

5.

In 1956, 101 congressmen from the former Confederate states urged their states to refuse compliance with desegregation. What did the states sign?

a)

Civil Rights Act

b)

SLCL

c)

Souther Manifesto

d)

Voting Act

6.

What court case set up the "separate but equal" statute allowing segregation?

a)

Brown v. Board of Education

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson

c)

Morgan v. Virginia

d)

Meredith v. University of Mississippi

7.

What does CORE mean?

a)

Christian Organization of Racial Equality

b)

Congress of Racial Equality

c)

Christians of Racial Equality

d)

Commission of Racial Equality

8.

What did Jackie Robinson do for African Americans?

a)

broke the color barrier in major league baseball, winning rookie-of-the-year honors with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947

b)

won the Nobel Peace Prize for arranging the 1948 Arab-Israeli truce.

c)

wrote poetry in the Harlem Renaissance in the 1940s

d)

wrote the first book published by an African American author in 1948

9.

What year did a coalition of workers led by SNCC launch the Freedom Summer project?

a)

1961

b)

1963

c)

1964

d)

1960

10.

What was the Freedom Summer about?

a)

A comprehensive civil rights legislation, backed by the power

of the federal government.

b)

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.

c)

A manifesto demanding an end to racist hiring practices and segregated public accommodations and the creation of a biracial committee to oversee desegregation.

d)

A voter registration effort in rural Mississippi organized by black and white civil rights workers.

11.

Who decided to launch a new campaign against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama?

a)

Malcolm X and the NOI

b)

Martin L. King, Jr. and the SNCC

c)

Prichett and the NAACP

d)

Martin L. King, Jr. and the SCLC

12.

What was the Albany Movement about?

a)

A coalition formed of activists from SNCC, the NAACP, and other local groups

b)

A division created that authorized the attorney general to seek court injunctions to protect people denied their right to vote

c)

A black student activists group that underlined the generational and radical aspects of the Civil Rights movement.

d)

King recognized the need to exploit the momentum of the movement and brought together nearly 100 black ministers to found the movement.

13.

The SCLC called on black people to...

a)

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

b)

understand the tense controversy over school integration becoming a case of state versus federal power

c)

petition the Interstate Commerce Commission to issue clear rules prohibiting segregation on interstate carriers

d)

understand the strategy was to fill the city jails with protesters, boycott downtown department stores, and enrage Public Safety Commissioner

14.

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.

a)

1960

b)

1961

c)

1962

d)

1963

15.

What year did Brown v. Board of Education happen where Supreme Court ruled segregated schools inherently unequal

a)

1953

b)

1954

c)

1955

d)

1956

16.

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

a)

1958

b)

1959

c)

1960

d)

1961

17.

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

a)

1962

b)

1963

c)

1964

d)

1965

18.

When did the Freedom Rides begin?

a)

1959

b)

1960

c)

1961

d)

1962

19.

What legislation banned racial discrimination in defense industry and government offices; established Fair Employment Practices Committee to investigate violations

a)

Civil Rights Act

b)

Executive Order 9981

c)

Voting Rights Act

d)

Executive Order 8802

20.

What year did these things happen?

Supreme Court rules that school desegregation must

proceed "with all deliberate speed"; Montgomery bus boycott begins

a)

1954

b)

1955

c)

1956

d)

1957