WorksheetsCivil Rights Movement
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 8mins
A NAACP attorney who went on to become Supreme Court Justice...
Thurgood Marshall
Martin Luther King Jr.
John Lewis
Group of students who began the integration of Central High School in Arkansas...
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Little Rock Nine
Freedom Riders
A minister who becomes one of the leading voices of the civil rights movement...
Lyndon B. Johnson
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr.
A group organized to promote civil rights for African Americans through nonviolent protests...
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Jim Crow Laws
Sit-ins
A NAACP member who refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger...
Betty Friedan
Shirley Chisholm
Rosa Parks
A ban of the Montgomery, AL public transportation system to protest its policy of segregation...
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Freedom Rides
March
1954 Supreme Court decision that ended segregation in public schools...
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Brown v. Board of Education
Voting Rights Act of 1965
President Lyndon B. Johnson's legislative plan of domestic reforms that include civil rights laws...
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Great Society
Jim Crow Laws
A social movement that called for African American power and independence...
March on Washington
Freedom Rides
Black Power
This law provided new powers to the federal government to protect African American's voting rights...
Civil Rights Act
Voting Rights Act
Black Power
Jim Crow Laws
President in 1963 after Kennedy was assassinated; he signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964...
Eugene "Bull" Connor
Lyndon B. Johnson
George Wallace
A series of integrated bus rides through the South...
Freedom Rides
March on Washington
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Youngest president elected in 1960- he proposed the New Frontier and supported the civil rights movement...
Lyndon B. Johnson
George Wallace
John F. Kennedy
Helped inspire the Black Power movement...
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
Thurgood Marshall
A huge demonstration organized by MLK to protest racial discrimination...
March on Washington
Sit-ins
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
A law that ended discrimination based on race, religion, or gender; also banned segregation...
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Equal Rights Amendment
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Project C
A group organized to promote the interests of people with disabilities...
National Organization for Women (NOW)
Disabled in Action (DIA)
American Indian Movement (AIM)
A conservative activist who founded the group STOP ERA- against equal rights for women...
Phyllis Schlafly
Shirley Chisholm
Betty Friedan
A group that was organized to promote the interests of women...
United Farm Workers (UFW)
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
National Organization for Women (NOW)
A Hispanic American who fought for the rights of Hispanic American workers...
Betty Friedan
Cesar Chavez
Martin Luther King Jr.
A proposed law to the Constitution that would provide equal rights to women...
National Organization for Women (NOW)
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Disabled in Action (DIA)
A leader of the modern women's rights movement; helped start NOW...
Shirley Chisholm
Rosa Parks
Betty Friedan
Phyllis Schlafly
First African American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress...
Linda Brown
Judy Heumann
Shirley Chisholm
A group organized to promote the interests of migrant farm workers...
National Congress of American Indians (NCAI)
Congress of Racial Quality (CORE)
United Farm Workers (UFW)
