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Civil Rights

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Atlanta born Civil Rights activist that believed in non-violent protests.; gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington.

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

c)

Cesar Chavez

d)

Thurgood Marshall

2.

Refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus.

a)

Mary Washington

b)

Jackie Kennedy

c)

Cesar Chavez

d)

Rosa Parks

3.

Desegregated all public schools. This was a major court case that involved Linda Brown attending an all-black school when an all-white school was closer to her home.

a)

Brown vs. the Board of Education

b)

13th Amendment

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

d)

Jim Crow Laws

4.

When African Americans refused to ride the public busses as a sign of protest; this began when Rosa Parks was jailed for refusing to give up her seat to a black man.

a)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

b)

March on Washington

c)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

d)

15th Amendment

5.

Separation of two or more races based on skin color

a)

segregation

b)

racism

c)

oppression

d)

facism

6.

Enforced racial segregation in the South; all were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures after the Reconstruction period.

a)

13th Amendment

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

d)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

7.

14 year old who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan because he whistled at a white woman.

a)

Jimmie Lee Jackson

b)

Emmettt Till

c)

Rosa Parks

d)

Malcolm X

8.

15 year old student who was one of nine black students that integrated Central High School in Little Rock

a)

Elizabeth Eckford

b)

Martin Luther King

c)

Emmett Till

d)

Rosa Parks

9.

This person was killed by police while trying to defend their mother and grandfather during a protest.

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Martin Luther King

c)

Jimmie Lee Jackson

d)

Malcolm X

10.

Martin Luther King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech in front of which monument?

a)

The White House

b)

The Washington Monument

c)

The Lincoln Memorial

d)

Fenway Park

11.

Martin Luther King endorsed this type of protest:

a)

non-violent

b)

self defense

c)

violence

d)

none of the above

12.

This form of protest means not purchasing or shopping at a store that enforces racist policies:

a)

sit in

b)

march

c)

boycott

d)

petition

13.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted:

a)

one year

b)

one week

c)

one month

d)

three years

14.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed:

a)

Poll Taxes

b)

Literacy Tests

c)

Grandfather Clauses

d)

All of the above

15.

This Supreme Court case ended segregation in schools.

a)

Tinker vs. Des Moines

b)

Plessy vs Ferguson

c)

Miranda vs. Arizona

d)

Brown vs Board of Education