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WorksheetsEarly Civil Rights Movement
Total questions: 44
Worksheet time: 22mins
What did Linda Brown have to walk across to get to her black school?
Work site
Railway switchyard
A busy bridge
Who did Linda Browns father, Oliver Brown, go to for help?
NAACP
SCLC
MIA
How many families were involved in total?
1
9
13
20
Why did Topeka Board of Education say that they could stop Linda going to the local 'white' school?
Segregation
Jim Crow Laws
Racism
Separate but equal
"Separate but Equal" meant...
That facilities were all the same
Facilities could be segregated so long as they were the same
Facilities could not be segregated
Segregation was illegal
Who did the NAACP's lawyers appeal to?
The Federal Court
The Supreme Court
The Topeka Board of Education
The President
Who decided that segregation of schools must end?
The Supreme Court
The president
The Topeka Board of Education
The Federal Court
Who was president during the Brown vs Topeka case?
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Johnson
Did the decision from Brown Vs Board of Education desegregate any other public places?
Yes
No
What Supreme Court ruling said that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional?
Miranda v. Arizona
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Marbury v. Madison
Dred Scott v. Sandford
In what state did the Little Rock Nine attend high school?
Arkansas
Mississippi
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Who ordered the national guard to stop the Little Rock Nine on their first day of school?
The president
A senator
The principal
The major
The governor
What high school did the Little Rock Nine attend?
Middle High School
City High School
Central High School
Western High School
County High School
Once they were attending school, things were easy for the Little Rock Nine.
True
False
What president sent the U.S. Army to protect the Little Rock Nine?
Richard Nixon
Harry Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Franklin Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
What happened after the first year that the Little Rock Nine attended high school?
Even more black students attended Central High
All public high schools in the state became integrated
The governor closed all public high schools in Little Rock
All are correct
The students had made their point and all people got along
How many of the Little Rock Nine made it through the first year at the school?
1
8
6
5
In which state did the Montgomery Bus Boycott occur?
Alabama
Montgomery
North Carolina
Texas
In what year did the Montgomery Bus Boycott start?
1954
1955
1956
1965
How long did the Bus Boycott last?
Just under one year
One Year
Just over one year
10 months
Which organisation organised the boycott?
MIA
NAACP
SCLC
SNCC
Why was Rosa Parks arrested?
she refused to give up her seat to a white man
she didn't stand up when a white man needed to sit down
she defied a segregation law
all of the above
Parks was sitting in the white-only section when she was arrested
True
False
People had to find new methods of transport. Which did they NOT use?
Cheap taxis
Trains
Walking
Car pools
What did African-American churches donate to the boycotters?
water for drinking
shirts for wearing
hats for sun protection
shoes for walking
Who was the president during the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Johnson
What was the outcome of the Bus Boycott?
The president ended segregation on buses
The Federal Court ended segregation on buses
The Senate ended segregation on buses
The Supreme Court ended segregation on buses
Approximately how many people got involved in the boycott?
10,000
20,000
25,000
250,000
What did Martin Luther King form at the end of the boycott?
The SCLC
The MIA
The SNCC
The NAACP
What did many white people join after the Bus Boycott?
The Ku Klux Klan
WASPS
The White Citizens Council
Where did the people go to protest?
Baltimore, MD
Washington, DC
Houston, TX
When did the people go protest?
August 28, 1963
February 3, 2021
December 31, 2013
How many people were in attendance?
25
200
250,000
Please complete this famous quote from the I Have a Dream speech: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by,,,".
the content of their character
the amount of money they make
what they look like
how they treat other people
What was the purpose of the March on Washington?
to promote equality in jobs & employment
to push for an end to segregation
to outlaw racial discrimination
ALL answer choices
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?
made racial discrimination & segregation illegal
enforced Jim Crow laws
desegregated public schools
lowered the voting age to 18
Which president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law?
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Johnson
What president pushed for a Civil Rights Act after he witnessed the violence in Birmingham?
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Johnson
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.
Which civil rights leader was in charge of the Selma to Montgomery march?
Stokely Carmichael
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr.
Nelson Mandela
What were the activists of Selma campaigning for?
Voting rights
Immigration rights
An end to segregation in public education
The desegregation of public transportation
The first march on March 7th 1965 ended when
President Johnson sent federal marshalls to block the marcher's route
Alabama troopers attacked marchers with clubs, horses, tear gas and etc.
Martin Luther jr King gave a speech at the Alabama state house pleading with marchers to retreat.
None of the above
What President signed the voting rights bill into law?
President Nixon
President Johnson
President Kennedy
President Obama
