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WorksheetsCivil Rights Movement
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Worksheet time: 1hrs 5mins
What were the laws designed to keep white people and black people apart called?
Segregation Laws
Jim Crow Laws
Seperation Laws
Separate but Equal Laws
What is the keeping of white and black people separate called?
Segregation
Seperation
Keeping Apart
Division
Which court case involved the protest of a man named Oliver Brown for his daughter, Linda Brown, to be able to attend a white school that was much closer to her house than the black school?
Brown V. Mississippi
Brown V. Board of Education
Brown V. All Schools
Brown V. the South
Who was Linda Brown's lawyer?
Theodore Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
Eleanor Roosevelt
Thurgood Marshall
In Brown V. BOE, what did the court rule about school segregation?
That it was alright as long as the facilities were equal.
That it was unconstitutional.
That it was wrong, but you could still do it if you wanted.
That it was perfectly fine.
Which important Civil Rights figure refused to give up his/her spot on the bus?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Rosa Parks
Thurgood Marshall
After Rosa Parks was arrested, who led the protest to boycott busses called the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Rosa Parks
Thurgood Marshall
John F. Kennedy
What was the 1963 march led by Martin Luther King Jr. in which more than 250,000 people marched through Washington, D.C. called?
March on DC
March on Washington
Marching Orders
Trail through Washington
What is the name of MLK's most famous speech?
I Can See it Now
I Have a Plan
I Have a Dream
Dreams
Why were federal troops sent to Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957?
to stop race riots
to enforce voting laws to allow African Americans to vote
to protect African American students who were attending an all-white high school
to arrest black students who were sitting at a whites-only lunch counter
City that was the most violet towards African Americans, also where MLK was arrested
Montgomery
Birmingham
Selma
Memphis
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?
Ended segregation in schools
Ended discrimination based on race, religion, gender, or national origin.
Gave all African Americans who were born in the United States the right to vote.
Gave all people the right to sit wherever they wanted on the city bus.
What happened to the two men that brutally killed Emmett Till?
They received the death penalty
Nothing, they were acquitted
Life in jail, no parole
They were murdered
During the 1950s, which of the following technologies became the most dominant form of mass media?
radio
television
computers
newspapers
What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlaw?
denying the right to vote based on race or color
denying the right to vote based on gender
allowing people to vote multiple times
allowing people under the age of 21 to vote
What was the nickname of the city of Birmingham?
Burningham
Green eggs and ham
Bombingham
Burlingham
After Bull Connor directed the police to "let 'em have it" with the fire hoses, some students remained holding hands and were soaking wet. What song were they singing?
We Are the World
We the People
We Are Family
Freedom
Life Magazine showcased an 11 page spread of photos from the Children's March which made what president sick?
Benjamin Franklin
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
How many little girls died in the basement of the 16th Street Baptist Church?
1
2
13
4
.......................... are volunteers who rode buses that went between states.
axes and pipes
Freedom Riders
white passengers
supreme court
In what state did the KKK throw bombs in the bus and didn't let the riders escape?
Alabama
Pennsylvania
Texas
Florida
The Freedom Riders were organized by CORE. What does CORE stand for?
Congress Organization for Rich Everywhere
Committee of Real Equality
Congress Of Racial Equality
None of these
Who was James Meredith?
A white activist
A member of the MIA
Martin Luther King´s son
An African American political science student
Where was SNCC founded?
Shaw University
Harvard University
Stanford University
The White House
What was the purpose of SNCC during the Civil Rights Era?
kept whites in political power in the South
coordinated students in the South to resist segregation laws
provided militant leadership to fight racism
surveyed Georgians regarding their feelings about segregation
MLK was the first president of this organization ...
NAACP
SCLC
KKK
SNCC
What does SNCC stand for?
Southern Natives Communication Committee
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Students Not Computer Controllers
Southern Native Civil Commission
How old was Ruby Bridges when she went to the all white school?
10 years old
7 years old
6 years old
18 years old
How many students were in Ruby Bridges' class?
23
1
6
18
Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X differed in their:
willingness to speak publicly
Opposition to segregation
Desire to help African Americans
Methods of Protest
What important city did Malcolm travel to, where many of his political views changed?
Athens
Mecca
Paris
Rio de Janeiro
When was Malcolm X assassinated?
1963
1964
1965
1966
"Thousands of student volunteers—mostly white, about one-third female—went into Mississippi to help register voters. For some, the job proved deadly."
Freedom Summer
Sit In
Black Power
March on Birmingham
“call for black people to begin to define their own goals . . . [and] to lead their own organizations.”
Black Panthers
White Flight
Black Power
Power to the People
__________ lead the first wave of the Civil Rights Movement.
MLK
JFK
Freedom Riders
Black WWII Veterans
The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted ______________.
over 1 year
4 years and 7 months
6 months and 3 days
1 day
What's the formal name for breaking laws that were thought to be unjust in a peaceful way to get them changed?
"No go" protest
Rioting
Nontraditional protest
Civil Disobedience
Which of the following is TRUE of Rosa Parks, the woman who helped spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 after being arrested for defying the city’s bus segregation laws?
She refused to give up her seat to a white man because she was tired.
Her refusal to give up her seat on December 1, 1955 was her first act of resistance against segregated buses.
As Secretary of the local NAACP chapter and leader of its Youth Group, she had an important history of activism before her action that began the bus boycott.
At the time of this incident, she was an elderly seamstress who had never been politically active.
What three methods of non-violent protest were used by MLK, Jr. during the Civil Rights movement?
Marches, demonstrations, boycotts
Rallies, Protests, and Boycotts
Mob Protests with Torches and Pitch Forks
Which two organizations were against the use of violence in the struggle for African-American civil rights?
CORE, SCLC
CORE, KKK
SCLC, Black Panthers
Nation of Islam, Black Panthers
Original Founders of Black Panther Party were:
Huey P. Newton and Martin Luther King
Bobby Seale and Elaine Brown
John Edgar Hoover and Huey P. Newton
Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, founded in 1957 by southern ministers fighting for equal rights led by Martin Luther King, Jr.
SDS
SCLC
SNCC
SCCL
King explained why African-Americans could no longer wait for equality.
"Letter from the Birmingham Jail"
"I Have a Dream Speech"
March on Washington
Selma March
Began in Greensboro, North Carolina when four students sat at a “whites only” lunch counter.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Registration Drives
Selma March
Sit-in Movement
Federal program designed to actively recruit minorities for employment.
Civil Rights Protection Act
Affirmative Action
Bootstrap Legislation
Minority Recruitment Program
Group that believed that African-Americans should rely more on themselves by controlling their own communities and businesses.
Black Panther Party
NAACP
Negroes United
Black Power Movement
Site of bombing which killed four young African-American children and injured many more.
Atlanta, Georgia
Selma, Alabama
16th Street Baptist Church
20th Street Baptist Church
Congress of Racial Equality, used peaceful confrontation to effect social change.
CORE
Corps Equality
Equality Congress
Commission of Equality
Federal law suspended literacy tests where they were used to prevent African-Americans from voting.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Plessy v. Ferguson
