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The Civil Rights Movement Review

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

2) Which describes Martin Luther King Jr?

a)

A leading Black Muslim who supported violent resistance to white oppression of black communities

b)

A preacher who believed in non-violent civil disobedience, wanted a Civil Rights Bill passed, and was assassinated in 1968.

c)

A founder of the militant Black Panther Party who believed in open carrying weapons who was assassinated in 1968.

2.

4) What was the ruling of Brown v Board of Education and what ruling did it overturn?

a)

Women have a right to an abortion, Miranda v Arizona

b)

Minorities have to be on juries, Delago v Bastrop ISD

c)

Citizens have few rights when in school, Tinker v Des Moines

d)

Segregation in schools is unconstitutional, Plessy V Ferguson

3.

9) Which of these describes the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

a)

Bans employer discrimination and public segregation

b)

Bans voter intimidation and literacy tests

c)

Bans poll taxes

d)

Students can join any school activity regardless of gender

4.

10) Which of these describes Thurgood Marshall?

a)

Created the Black Panther Party

b)

Argues Brown v Board for the NAACP in 1954 and became The first African American Supreme Court Justice in 1967

c)

Used non-violent civil disobedience to encourage change

d)

Created the American G.I. Forum

5.

Whites Only Water Fountain

.... this sign represents what laws in the South

a)

Racial Rules

b)

Lincoln Laws

c)

Black Codes

d)

Jim Crow Laws

6.
What Supreme Court case ruled "separate but equal" was legal?
a)
Redskins vs Giants
b)
Aylor vs Byrd
c)
Brown vs Board of Education
d)
Plessy vs Ferguson
7.
the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.
a)
Racism
b)
Discrimination
c)
Prejudice 
d)
Ku Klux Klan
8.

Whose public speech was the famous "I have a dream...."

a)

Martin Luther King

b)

J.F. Kennedy

c)

Donald Trump

d)

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

9.

Which case stated that schools must integrate, thus overthrowing "separate but equal."

a)

Brown v. Board of Education

b)

The Little Rock Nine

c)

Plessy v. Ferguson

d)

Frantz v. William

10.

Protests, economic and political noncooperation (like sit-ins and boycotts) are examples of what?

a)

Segregation

b)

Nonviolent Protests

c)

Civil Rights

d)

Freedom Rides