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WorksheetsBlack History Month
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
Juneteenth, which became an official federal holiday in 2021, commemorates this:
The day the last slaves in Texas found out that the Civil War was over and that they were free
The service of black troops in the U.S. Army during the Civil War
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling that effectively ended 'separate but equal' education
The signing into law of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
What group launched the Freedom Rides in 1961?
ACLU-American Civil Liberties Union
SCLC-Southern Christian Leadership Conference
CORE-Congress of Racial Equality
SNCC-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
At the time of her historic bus incident, what was Rosa Parks' occupation?
Hospital orderly
Drugstore clerk
High school cafeteria worker
Department store seamstress
Which of these influential authors became the first African American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Maya Angelou
August Wilson
Lorraine Hansberry
Toni Morrison
Before he was elected president of the United States, Barack Obama served as a U.S. senator of which Midwestern state?
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Ohio
In addition to his influential campaigns to become president of the United States, in 1984 and 1988, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson is known for his leadership roles with which civil rights organizations?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
People United to Save Humanity (Operation PUSH)
Rainbow Coalition
All of the above
In 1960, four black college students staged a sit-in that helped integrate this store's lunch counter.
Woolworth's
W.T. Grant
G.C. Murphy
S.S. Kresge
In 1968 she became the first black woman elected to Congress:
Barbara Jordan
Maxine Waters
Shirley Chisholm
Carol Moseley Braun
Members of what labor union helped to build the nation’s black middle class and civil rights movement?
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
American Federal of Teachers
Communications Workers of America
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
Who was elected chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1966?
Charles E. Cobb Jr.
Stokely Carmichael
John Lewis
Bobby Seale
Who was the first black child to attend an all-white public elementary school in the American South?
Ruby Bridges
Hattie McDaniel
Aretha Franklin
Oprah Winfrey
