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Civil Rights Movement VOCAB

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Brown v. Board of Education ended what?

a)

segregation in public schools

b)

segregation in department schools

c)

segregation in colleges

2.
What was the name of the court case that ended segregation in public schools?
a)
Garner v Louisiana
b)
Brown v Board of Education
c)
Smith v Board of Education
3.

African American woman who refused to give up her seat on a

public bus to a white passenger

a)

MLK Jr.

b)

Rosa Parks

c)

Little Rock 9

d)

Malcolm X

e)

Emmett Till

4.

Who was appointed to the Brown v. Board of Education case?

a)

Thomas Marshall

b)

Barack Obama

c)

Colonel Sanders

d)

Thurgood Marshall

5.

Baptist minister and civil rights leader who inspired

nonviolent protests against discrimination

a)

Malcolm X

b)

Martin Luther King Jr.

c)

Malcolm Little

d)

Rosa Parks

6.

African American teen who was brutally murdered while visiting his family in Money, Mississippi. His murder gained national attention.

a)

Emmett Till

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Martin Luther King Jr.

d)

George Floyd

7.

nonviolent protest of segregation on public

transportation

a)

Chicago protests

b)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

c)

New Orleans transportation boycott

d)

Plessy v Ferguson

8.

A protest in which people sit down and refuse to leave during the Civil Rights Movement

a)

Sit Ups

b)

Sit Downs

c)

Sit Ins

d)

Silent Protests

9.

Who was Malcolm X?

a)

U.S. president after Kennedy was assassinated

b)

U.S. president elected in 1960; youngest person elected

president

c)

head of the NAACP in Mississippi who was murdered in 1963

d)

a leader who combined ideas about independence with teachings of Islam

10.
These black teenagers were the first to integrate into Little Rock Central High
a)
Elite Eight
b)
Little Rock Nine
c)
Arkansas Seven
d)
Final Four
11.
This law banned all literacy tests that kept many African Americans from voting. 
a)
Civil Rights Act
b)
Voting Rights Act
c)
Civil Rights Movement
d)
24th Amendment
12.
This law banned discrimination of any American because of race, gender,  or religion. 
a)
Voting Rights Act
b)
Civil Rights Act
c)
15th  Amendment
d)
Civil Rights Movement
13.

Who was John F. Kennedy?

a)

U.S. president elected in 1960; youngest person elected

president

b)

head of the NAACP in Mississippi who was murdered in 1963

c)

U.S. president after Kennedy was assassinated

d)

leader who combined ideas about independence with teachings of Islam