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Civil Rights

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who thought that African Americans should make their own dreams, own shops, and drive buses?

a)

Malcom X

b)

Ida.B.Wells

c)

Rosa parks

d)

Martin Luther King

2.

Rosa parks got arrested because...(Add seat)

(a)  

3.

What was the difference between Martin Luther King´s dream and Malcom X´s dream?

a)

Malcom X wanted power, while King wanted peace

b)

Malcom X wanted black power, black self-defense and black economic autonomy, and encouraged racial pride. Martin Luther King wanted equality among all races

c)

Malcom X wanted black rights. Martin Luther King wanted war

d)

None of the above

4.

What did Malcom X do to help the Civil Rights

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5.

What were the Jim Crow Laws?

a)

All of the Above

b)

A law making houses segregated

c)

Law by Jim Crow

d)

A law that makes segregation in all public facilities in the southern states manditory

6.

Draw a star next to Malcom X, and a cricle around Martin Luther King

7.

Why did Rosa not move when the bus driver ask her to move?

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8.

What was the NAACP?

a)

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

b)

An association created in 1909

c)

All of the above

d)

None of the above

9.

What is segregation? (There is more than one answer)

a)

all people can be together.

b)

Whites and blacks are seperated.

c)

Whites were thought better than blacks

d)

A law seperating blacks and whites.

10.

Who is Ida.B.Wells?

a)

an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement.

b)

Librarian in the civil rights movements.

c)

an American investigative journalist, Malcom X supporter, and early leader in the civil rights movement.

d)

Martin Luther King supporter

11.

how did the bus boycot work. What were the good things about it, what were the bad?

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