WorksheetsCivil Rights
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Atlanta born Civil Rights activist that believed in non-violent protests.; gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington.
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cesar Chavez
Thurgood Marshall
Refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus.
Mary Washington
Jackie Kennedy
Cesar Chavez
Rosa Parks
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.
Brown vs. the Board of Education
13th Amendment
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Jim Crow Laws
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.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
March on Washington
Montgomery Bus Boycott
15th Amendment
Separation of two or more races based on skin color
segregation
racism
oppression
facism
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.
13th Amendment
Jim Crow Laws
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Civil Rights Act of 1964
14 year old who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan because he whistled at a white woman.
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Emmettt Till
Rosa Parks
Malcolm X
15 year old student who was one of nine black students that integrated Central High School in Little Rock
Elizabeth Eckford
Martin Luther King
Emmett Till
Rosa Parks
This person was killed by police while trying to defend their mother and grandfather during a protest.
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech in front of which monument?
The White House
The Washington Monument
The Lincoln Memorial
Fenway Park
Martin Luther King endorsed this type of protest:
non-violent
self defense
violence
none of the above
This form of protest means not purchasing or shopping at a store that enforces racist policies:
sit in
march
boycott
petition
The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted:
one year
one week
one month
three years
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed:
Poll Taxes
Literacy Tests
Grandfather Clauses
All of the above
This Supreme Court case ended segregation in schools.
Tinker vs. Des Moines
Plessy vs Ferguson
Miranda vs. Arizona
Brown vs Board of Education
