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Civil Rights Review

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are the basic rights that every citizen has under the laws of the government?

a)

segregation

b)

Civil Rights

c)

integration

d)

Thurgood Marshall

2.

When was the Civil Rights movement?

a)

1850's & 60's

b)

1863

c)

1964

d)

1950's and 60's

3.

What is the word for the separation of blacks and whites?

a)

Civil Rights

b)

Integration

c)

Segregation

d)

Discrimination

4.

What were the laws that were made to separate blacks and whites? (Mostly in the South.)

a)

Integration

b)

segregation

c)

discrimination

d)

Jim Crow

5.

What was the name of the trial that decided that school segregation was unconstitutional?

a)

Brown v Board of Education

b)

Selma to Montgomery Marches

c)

Civil Rights Act

d)

Greensboro Sit-ins

6.

Who was the Brown’s lawyer?

a)

Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

Malcom X

c)

Thurgood Marshall

d)

Rosa Parks

7.

Who did not give up her bus seat?

a)

Ida B Wells

b)

Rosa Parks

c)

Oprah

d)

Linda Brown

8.

What city did the bus boycott begin in?

a)

Selma

b)

Washington DC

c)

Montgomery

d)

Greensboro

9.

What was the name of the black high school students who first went to a white school?

a)

Greensboro 4

b)

Freedom Riders

c)

Little Rock 9

d)

Marchers on Washington

10.

What was it called when whites and blacks could be together in public places?

a)

segregation

b)

Civil Rights

c)

discrimination

d)

integration

11.

Where did the Greensboro students decide to protest?

a)

bus station

b)

bus

c)

school

d)

restaurant

12.

What was the name for the riders on the buses in the South?

a)

Greensboro 4

b)

Little Rock 9

c)

protesters

d)

Freedom Riders

13.

Who was called in during the Freedom Rides to help keep the peace?

a)

Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

Thurgood Marshall

c)

National Guard

d)

President Johnson

14.

What was planned in Washington DC to bring attention to segregation?

a)

protest

b)

sit-in

c)

march

d)

boycott

15.

Who was the main speaker during the March on Washington?

a)

Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Thurgood Marshall

d)

President Johnson

16.

Where did the Birmingham bombings happen?

a)

lunch counter

b)

Baptist church

c)

bus

d)

bus station

17.

In what year was the Civil Rights Act signed?

a)

1962

b)

1963

c)

1964

d)

1965

18.

Which president signed the Civil Rights Act?

a)

Eisenhower

b)

Kennedy

c)

Johnson

d)

Nixon

19.

What did the Selma to Montgomery marchers want?

a)

segregation

b)

integration

c)

voting rights

d)

discrimination

20.

What was the nickname of the day that many Selma to Montgomery marchers were hurt?

a)

Bloody Sunday

b)

Bloody Monday

c)

Freedom Day

d)

Dream Day

21.

Which Civil Rights group was formed by Ida B. Wells and W.E.B. DuBois?

a)

Freedom Riders

b)

NAACP

c)

Ku Klux Klan

d)

Black Panthers

22.

What is the word for when people decide to protest by not using an item or service?

a)

boycott

b)

sit-in

c)

march

d)

violence

23.

What is the word for when people decide to protest by sitting somewhere peacefully to call attention to it?

a)

boycott

b)

sit-in

c)

march

d)

violence

24.

What was the name of the document that freed the slaves in 1863?

a)

Civil Rights Act

b)

Emancipation Proclamation

c)

Constitution

d)

Voting Rights Act

25.

What is the name of the white supremacist group that threatens African Americans?

a)

NAACP

b)

Black Panthers

c)

Ku Klux Klan

d)

Freedom Riders

26.

What is it called when people are treated unjustly because of their skin color?

a)

segregation

b)

integration

c)

discrimination

d)

boycott

27.

What was the name of MLK’s speech at the March on Washington?

a)

Emancipation Proclamation

b)

I Have a Dream

c)

Let Freedom Ring

d)

Civil Rights for All

28.

Where in the U.S. did most of the troubles with integration happen?

a)

North

b)

South

c)

Washington DC

d)

West

29.

Were many of the Civil Rights protests violent or non-violent?

a)

Violent

b)

Non-violent

30.

Which document gives citizens of the U.S. equal rights?

a)

Constitution

b)

Emancipation Proclamation

c)

Civil Rights Act

d)

Voting Rights Act