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Civil Rights Movement

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What group of people work for the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP)?

a)

Teachers

b)

Health professionals

c)

Lawyers

d)

Social workers

2.

Who was leading lawyer for the NAACP in the Brown V Topeka supreme court case

a)

Thurgood Marshall

b)

Earl Warren

c)

Linda Brown

3.

Why is it significant that the president was prepared to send federal troops into Little Rock to help the nine black school children

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4.

Rosa Parks was the first ever black women to refuse to give up her seat in Montgomery

a)

True

b)

False

5.

How many people were involved in the bus boycott on the first day?

a)

10,000

b)

7000

c)

20,000

6.

Why type of protesting methods did Martin Luther King use

a)

Non-violent direct action

b)

Violence but only in self defence

c)

violent methods

7.

Why was the Civil Rights Act in 1957 NOT a huge success for the Civil Rights Movement

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8.

What was Emmett Till accused of doing

a)

Shouting a white people

b)

Fighting

c)

wolf whistling at a white women

9.

Who were the Dixiecrats?

a)

The KKK

b)

Southern Democrats against desegregation

c)

Members of the White Citizens Council

10.

Why did president Eisenhower have to be careful not to upset the Dixiecrats

a)

He was scared of rebellion

b)

He did want to use the federal guard again

c)

He needed them to vote for him