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Civil Rights Movement

Total questions: 65

Worksheet time: 1hrs 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What were the laws designed to keep white people and black people apart called?

a)

Segregation Laws

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Seperation Laws

d)

Separate but Equal Laws

2.

What is the keeping of white and black people separate called?

a)

Segregation

b)

Seperation

c)

Keeping Apart

d)

Division

3.

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?

a)

Brown V. Mississippi

b)

Brown V. Board of Education

c)

Brown V. All Schools

d)

Brown V. the South

4.

Who was Linda Brown's lawyer?

a)

Theodore Roosevelt

b)

John F. Kennedy

c)

Eleanor Roosevelt

d)

Thurgood Marshall

5.

In Brown V. BOE, what did the court rule about school segregation?

a)

That it was alright as long as the facilities were equal.

b)

That it was unconstitutional.

c)

That it was wrong, but you could still do it if you wanted.

d)

That it was perfectly fine.

6.

Which important Civil Rights figure refused to give up his/her spot on the bus?

a)

Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

Eleanor Roosevelt

c)

Rosa Parks

d)

Thurgood Marshall

7.

After Rosa Parks was arrested, who led the protest to boycott busses called the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

a)

Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

Rosa Parks

c)

Thurgood Marshall

d)

John F. Kennedy

8.

What was the 1963 march led by Martin Luther King Jr. in which more than 250,000 people marched through Washington, D.C. called?

a)

March on DC

b)

March on Washington

c)

Marching Orders

d)

Trail through Washington

9.

What is the name of MLK's most famous speech?

a)

I Can See it Now

b)

I Have a Plan

c)

I Have a Dream

d)

Dreams

10.
The purpose of the Selma march was to campaign for...
a)
job rights for African Americans.
b)
voting rights for African Americans.
c)
new desegregation laws.
d)
voting rights for women.
11.

Why were federal troops sent to Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957?

a)

to stop race riots

b)

to enforce voting laws to allow African Americans to vote

c)

to protect African American students who were attending an all-white high school

d)

to arrest black students who were sitting at a whites-only lunch counter

12.

City that was the most violet towards African Americans, also where MLK was arrested

a)

Montgomery

b)

Birmingham

c)

Selma

d)

Memphis

13.
What president pushed for a Civil Rights Act after he witnessed the violence in Birmingham?
a)
Lyndon Johnson
b)
John Kennedy
c)
Robert Kennedy
d)
Dwight Eisenhower
14.

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?

a)

Ended segregation in schools

b)

Ended discrimination based on race, religion, gender, or national origin.

c)

Gave all African Americans who were born in the United States the right to vote.

d)

Gave all people the right to sit wherever they wanted on the city bus.

15.

What happened to the two men that brutally killed Emmett Till?

a)

They received the death penalty

b)

Nothing, they were acquitted

c)

Life in jail, no parole

d)

They were murdered

16.

During the 1950s, which of the following technologies became the most dominant form of mass media?

a)

radio

b)

television

c)

computers

d)

newspapers

17.

What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlaw?

a)

denying the right to vote based on race or color

b)

denying the right to vote based on gender

c)

allowing people to vote multiple times

d)

allowing people under the age of 21 to vote

18.
How did newspapers and media play a role in the Civil Rights Movement?
a)
They showed how great Jim Crow laws were
b)
They showed how unfair Jim Crow laws were and helped convince people to join the Civil Rights Movement
c)
 They made a lot of money following Martin Luther King Jr. 
d)
All of the above
19.
Which president integrated the military and federal government?
a)
Truman
b)
Eisenhower
c)
Roosevelt
d)
Kennedy
20.
What organization, created by WEB Dubois, advocated for rights for blacks and other minorities?
a)
NAACP
b)
NCAA
c)
NATO
d)
NAFTA
21.
This president sent federal troops to Arkansas to integrate the schools in Little Rock
a)
Truman
b)
Eisenhower
c)
Roosevelt
d)
Kennedy
22.

What was the nickname of the city of Birmingham?

a)

Burningham

b)

Green eggs and ham

c)

Bombingham

d)

Burlingham

23.

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?

a)

We Are the World

b)

We the People

c)

We Are Family

d)

Freedom

24.

Life Magazine showcased an 11 page spread of photos from the Children's March which made what president sick?

a)

Benjamin Franklin

b)

Theodore Roosevelt

c)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

d)

John F. Kennedy

25.

How many little girls died in the basement of the 16th Street Baptist Church?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

13

d)

4

26.

.......................... are volunteers who rode buses that went between states.

a)

axes and pipes

b)

Freedom Riders

c)

white passengers

d)

supreme court

27.

In what state did the KKK throw bombs in the bus and didn't let the riders escape?

a)

Alabama

b)

Pennsylvania

c)

Texas

d)

Florida

28.

The Freedom Riders were organized by CORE. What does CORE stand for?

a)

Congress Organization for Rich Everywhere

b)

Committee of Real Equality

c)

Congress Of Racial Equality

d)

None of these

29.

Who was James Meredith?

a)

A white activist

b)

A member of the MIA

c)

Martin Luther King´s son

d)

An African American political science student

30.

Where was SNCC founded?

a)

Shaw University

b)

Harvard University

c)

Stanford University

d)

The White House

31.

What was the purpose of SNCC during the Civil Rights Era?

a)

kept whites in political power in the South

b)

coordinated students in the South to resist segregation laws

c)

provided militant leadership to fight racism

d)

surveyed Georgians regarding their feelings about segregation

32.

MLK was the first president of this organization ...

a)

NAACP

b)

SCLC

c)

KKK

d)

SNCC

33.

What does SNCC stand for?

a)

Southern Natives Communication Committee

b)

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

c)

Students Not Computer Controllers

d)

Southern Native Civil Commission

34.

How old was Ruby Bridges when she went to the all white school?

a)

10 years old

b)

7 years old

c)

6 years old

d)

18 years old

35.

How many students were in Ruby Bridges' class?

a)

23

b)

1

c)

6

d)

18

36.

Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X differed in their:

a)

willingness to speak publicly

b)

Opposition to segregation

c)

Desire to help African Americans

d)

Methods of Protest

37.

What important city did Malcolm travel to, where many of his political views changed?

a)

Athens

b)

Mecca

c)

Paris

d)

Rio de Janeiro

38.

When was Malcolm X assassinated?

a)

1963

b)

1964

c)

1965

d)

1966

39.
Segregation caused by private action & not legislation
a)
de facto segregation
b)
de jure segregation
c)
affirmative action
d)
ex post facto segregation
40.
What strategy did the NAACP adopt in its fight for civil rights?
a)
massive resistance
b)
attacking racism in the courts
c)
direct nonviolence
d)
sit-ins
41.
 What was the common goal of the sit-in movement and the Freedom Rides?
a)
to seek legal remedies to inequality
b)
to end segregation in all public areas
c)
to end segregation in public schools
d)
to force segregation to respond violently
42.
The Selma March is also known as ____. 
a)
Bloody Sunday
b)
Black Sunday
c)
Bloody Tuesday
d)
Black Tuesday
43.

"Thousands of student volunteers—mostly white, about one-third female—went into Mississippi to help register voters. For some, the job proved deadly."

a)

Freedom Summer

b)

Sit In

c)

Black Power

d)

March on Birmingham

44.

“call for black people to begin to define their own goals . . . [and] to lead their own organizations.”

a)

Black Panthers

b)

White Flight

c)

Black Power

d)

Power to the People

45.

__________ lead the first wave of the Civil Rights Movement.

a)

MLK

b)

JFK

c)

Freedom Riders

d)

Black WWII Veterans

46.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted ______________.

a)

over 1 year

b)

4 years and 7 months

c)

6 months and 3 days

d)

1 day

47.

What's the formal name for breaking laws that were thought to be unjust in a peaceful way to get them changed?

a)

"No go" protest

b)

Rioting

c)

Nontraditional protest

d)

Civil Disobedience

48.
How did newspapers and media play a role in the Civil Rights Movement?
a)
They showed how great Jim Crow laws were
b)
They showed how unfair Jim Crow laws were and helped convince people to join the Civil Rights Movement
c)
 They made a lot of money following Martin Luther King Jr. 
d)
All of the above
49.

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?

a)

She refused to give up her seat to a white man because she was tired.

b)

Her refusal to give up her seat on December 1, 1955 was her first act of resistance against segregated buses.

c)

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.

d)

At the time of this incident, she was an elderly seamstress who had never been politically active.

50.

What three methods of non-violent protest were used by MLK, Jr. during the Civil Rights movement?

a)

Marches, demonstrations, boycotts

b)

Rallies, Protests, and Boycotts

c)

Mob Protests with Torches and Pitch Forks

51.

Which two organizations were against the use of violence in the struggle for African-American civil rights?

a)

CORE, SCLC

b)

CORE, KKK

c)

SCLC, Black Panthers

d)

Nation of Islam, Black Panthers

52.

Original Founders of Black Panther Party were:

a)

Huey P. Newton and Martin Luther King

b)

Bobby Seale and Elaine Brown

c)

John Edgar Hoover and Huey P. Newton

d)

Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton

53.
This person was the first African American to be enrolled in Ole Miss University.
a)
Hemann Sweatt
b)
Malcolm X
c)
James Meredith
d)
Bobby Seales
54.
The Plessy v. Ferguson ruling of 1896 established that laws segregating African Americans were permitted in the so-called...
a)
"de facto segregation" doctrine.
b)
"Southern segregation" doctrine.
c)
"separate but equal" doctrine.
d)
"constitutional segregation" doctrine.
55.
Which group worked to fight segregation and other inequalities primarily through the courts?
a)
NAACP
b)
SNCC
c)
SCLC
d)
AIM
56.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. believed that the only moral way to end segregation and racism was through...
a)
violence and riots.
b)
the political system.
c)
education.
d)
nonviolent passive resistance.
57.
In Little Rock, Arkansas, the governor tried to prevent African American students from entering a white high school by...
a)
closing the school.
b)
redrawing the school district.
c)
hiring the Ku Klux Klan.
d)
deploying the National Guard.
58.

Southern Christian Leadership Conference, founded in 1957 by southern ministers fighting for equal rights led by Martin Luther King, Jr.

a)

SDS

b)

SCLC

c)

SNCC

d)

SCCL

59.

King explained why African-Americans could no longer wait for equality.

a)

"Letter from the Birmingham Jail"

b)

"I Have a Dream Speech"

c)

March on Washington

d)

Selma March

60.

Began in Greensboro, North Carolina when four students sat at a “whites only” lunch counter.

a)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

b)

Registration Drives

c)

Selma March

d)

Sit-in Movement

61.

Federal program designed to actively recruit minorities for employment.

a)

Civil Rights Protection Act

b)

Affirmative Action

c)

Bootstrap Legislation

d)

Minority Recruitment Program

62.

Group that believed that African-Americans should rely more on themselves by controlling their own communities and businesses.

a)

Black Panther Party

b)

NAACP

c)

Negroes United

d)

Black Power Movement

63.

Site of bombing which killed four young African-American children and injured many more.

a)

Atlanta, Georgia

b)

Selma, Alabama

c)

16th Street Baptist Church

d)

20th Street Baptist Church

64.

Congress of Racial Equality, used peaceful confrontation to effect social change.

a)

CORE

b)

Corps Equality

c)

Equality Congress

d)

Commission of Equality

65.

Federal law suspended literacy tests where they were used to prevent African-Americans from voting.

a)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1957

d)

Plessy v. Ferguson