WorksheetsCivil Rights Review
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
What are the basic rights that every citizen has under the laws of the government?
segregation
Civil Rights
integration
Thurgood Marshall
When was the Civil Rights movement?
1850's & 60's
1863
1964
1950's and 60's
What is the word for the separation of blacks and whites?
Civil Rights
Integration
Segregation
Discrimination
What were the laws that were made to separate blacks and whites? (Mostly in the South.)
Integration
segregation
discrimination
Jim Crow
What was the name of the trial that decided that school segregation was unconstitutional?
Brown v Board of Education
Selma to Montgomery Marches
Civil Rights Act
Greensboro Sit-ins
Who was the Brown’s lawyer?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcom X
Thurgood Marshall
Rosa Parks
Who did not give up her bus seat?
Ida B Wells
Rosa Parks
Oprah
Linda Brown
What city did the bus boycott begin in?
Selma
Washington DC
Montgomery
Greensboro
What was the name of the black high school students who first went to a white school?
Greensboro 4
Freedom Riders
Little Rock 9
Marchers on Washington
What was it called when whites and blacks could be together in public places?
segregation
Civil Rights
discrimination
integration
Where did the Greensboro students decide to protest?
bus station
bus
school
restaurant
What was the name for the riders on the buses in the South?
Greensboro 4
Little Rock 9
protesters
Freedom Riders
Who was called in during the Freedom Rides to help keep the peace?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Thurgood Marshall
National Guard
President Johnson
What was planned in Washington DC to bring attention to segregation?
protest
sit-in
march
boycott
Who was the main speaker during the March on Washington?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
Thurgood Marshall
President Johnson
Where did the Birmingham bombings happen?
lunch counter
Baptist church
bus
bus station
In what year was the Civil Rights Act signed?
1962
1963
1964
1965
Which president signed the Civil Rights Act?
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Johnson
Nixon
What did the Selma to Montgomery marchers want?
segregation
integration
voting rights
discrimination
What was the nickname of the day that many Selma to Montgomery marchers were hurt?
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Monday
Freedom Day
Dream Day
Which Civil Rights group was formed by Ida B. Wells and W.E.B. DuBois?
Freedom Riders
NAACP
Ku Klux Klan
Black Panthers
What is the word for when people decide to protest by not using an item or service?
boycott
sit-in
march
violence
What is the word for when people decide to protest by sitting somewhere peacefully to call attention to it?
boycott
sit-in
march
violence
What was the name of the document that freed the slaves in 1863?
Civil Rights Act
Emancipation Proclamation
Constitution
Voting Rights Act
What is the name of the white supremacist group that threatens African Americans?
NAACP
Black Panthers
Ku Klux Klan
Freedom Riders
What is it called when people are treated unjustly because of their skin color?
segregation
integration
discrimination
boycott
What was the name of MLK’s speech at the March on Washington?
Emancipation Proclamation
I Have a Dream
Let Freedom Ring
Civil Rights for All
Where in the U.S. did most of the troubles with integration happen?
North
South
Washington DC
West
Were many of the Civil Rights protests violent or non-violent?
Violent
Non-violent
Which document gives citizens of the U.S. equal rights?
Constitution
Emancipation Proclamation
Civil Rights Act
Voting Rights Act
