WorksheetsThe Civil Rights Movement Review
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
The Civil Rights Movement peaked in this decade:
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
Which of these were NOT part of the movement for equality during this time period?
Latinos
Homosexuals
White males
African Americans
Native Americans
Most of the people who participated in the Civil Rights Movement were offspring of what generation?
Baby boomers
The WWII generation
Millenials
The Silent Generation
What did the group SCLC stand for?
Southern Christians Leading other Christians
The South Challenging Leadership Colleagues
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The South Conference Leaders promoting Christianity
What did SNCC stand for?
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Students Not taking Crap
Student Nonviolent Caring Conference
Students Not Coordinating Confident
What was a sit-in during the Civil Rights Movement?
When African Americans sat on buses they weren't allowed to ride
When students sat in the middle of the road, blocking traffic, to protest
When African American activists peacefully sat in restaurants they weren't allowed to sit in
When African Americans sat at college campuses and gave speeches on equality
What were the freedom rides during the Civil Rights Movement?
Student activists sitting on buses they were technically not allowed to ride and riding throughout the South
Activists peacefully sitting in restaurants they were prohibited to sit in
Activists giving speeches at college campuses
Activists standing in the streets to protest
What is most likely the most significant part of the March on Washington in 1963?
Robert Kennedy gave a famous speech in the bed of a truck
Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I have a Dream" speech
The police came and arrested over half of the 200,000 participants
This marks the end of the Civil Rights Movement
President JFK was reluctant to actively help the Civil Rights Movement, while President Johnson was more willing and more successful.
True
False
When was the Civil Rights Act passed by Congress?
1963
1964
1965
1966
When was the Voting Rights Act passed by Congress?
1963
1964
1965
1966
What year was discrimination in housing banned?
1966
1967
1968
1969
Choose the two statements that would describe leaders like Stokely Carmichael & Malcolm X who were disappointed in the nonviolent tactics of MLK, JR.
Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong
By any means necessary
Black Power
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal
Choose the two leaders who were assassinated in 1968 that marked the end of an era of idealism during the Civil Rights Movement:
Martin Luther King, Jr
President John F. Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Malcolm X
In the 1970s, the Civil Rights Movement became more about equality and access rather than the legality of segregation.
True
False
