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WorksheetsTaking on Segregation
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
1896 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
a)
Voting Rights Act of 1965
b)
24th Amendment
c)
Montgomery Boycott
d)
Plessy v. Ferguson
2.
Refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, spurring the Montgomery boycott and other efforts to end segregation.
a)
Rosa Parks
b)
Selma March
c)
Little Rock Nine
d)
Civil Disobedience
3.
Group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
a)
Black Panthers
b)
Civil Disobedience
c)
N.A.A.C.P.
d)
Little Rock Nine
4.
Instrumental in ending legal segregation and became the first African-American justice of the Supreme Court.
a)
Malcolm X
b)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
c)
George Wallace
d)
Thurgood Marshall
5.
African-American civil rights organization which is closely associated with Martin Luther King Jr, had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement.
a)
Black Panthers
b)
Brown v. Board of Education
c)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
d)
Little Rock Nine
6.
The refusal to obey certain laws or governmental demands for the purpose of influencing legislation or government policy thru non-violent means.
a)
Affirmative Action
b)
Jim Crow Laws
c)
Civil Disobedience
d)
Integration
7.
Landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
a)
14th Amendment
b)
Brown v. Board of Education
c)
Sweat v Painter
d)
Plessy v. Ferguson
8.
African-American civil rights organization formed in 1909 by W. E. B. Du Bois and others. Mainly used legal battles to win civil rights victories.
a)
Black Panthers
b)
Little Rock Nine
c)
N.A.A.C.P.
d)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
9.
Which Civil Rights leader first rose to prominence as the leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) during the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
a)
Martin Luther King Jr.
b)
Rosa Parks
c)
Bayard Rustin
d)
Emmett Till
10.
Which technology did MLK and the Civil Rights Movement MOST rely on in order to effect change?
a)
Cameras
b)
Television
c)
Radio
d)
Antibiotics
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