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Alabama Studies Weekly Week 22

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Jim Crow laws required that all public facilities be integrated.

a)

True

b)

False

2.

The NAACP held a meeting in Montgomery in 1947 to recruit people to dedicate themselves to the fight for civil rights.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

The Montgomery Bus Company accepted integration when the president said they had to.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Rosa Parks started a “revolution” when she refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white person.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

E.D.Nixon was an American civil rights leader who is remembered by many as the “Father of the Civil Rights Movement.”

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Johnnie Carr.......(choose 3)

a)

was a friend of Rosa Parks

b)

worked with Martin Luther King Jr.

c)

served as Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) president for many years.

d)

was the "Father of the Civil Rights Movement"

7.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr........(choose 2)

a)

won the Nobel Peace Prize.

b)

helped change our country’s laws, giving equal rights to all races.

c)

still lives in Montgomery

d)

was known as the "Father of the Civil Rights Movement"

8.

E. D. Nixon....

a)

never met Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

helped get Rosa Parks out of jail.

c)

won the Nobel Peace Prize.

d)

served as president of the Montgomery Chapter of the NAACP

9.

Virginia and Clifford Durr.....(choose 2)

a)

were African Americans.

b)

were active in the civil rights movement.

c)

helped get Rosa Parks out of jail.

d)

never met Rosa Parks.

10.

George Wallace.....(choose 2)

a)

worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

believed in integration.

c)

apologized later in life for his segregated belief.

d)

served as governor of Alabama.

11.

President ____________________sent federal troops to protect the protestors who marched from Selma to Montgomery in 1965.

a)

Johnnie Carr

b)

Lyndon Johnson

c)

E.D. Nixon

d)

Martin Luther King Jr.

12.

The effort to help different races get along with one another is sometimes called the _____________________

a)

segregation

b)

civil rights movement

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

Rosa Parks

13.

Separation according to race is called

a)

integration

b)

civil rights movement

c)

segregation

d)

Jim Crow Laws

14.

____________________ was awarded the Roosevelt Freedom Medal for her dedication to the fight for civil rights.

a)

Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

E.D. Nixon

c)

Johnnie Carr

d)

Rosa Parks

15.

__________________ along with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., created the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA).

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

E.D. Nixon

c)

Johnnie Carr

d)

Lyndon Johnson