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Civil Rights and Selma Basics

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Where is the march from Selma planned to end?

a)

Atlanta

b)

Mobile

c)

Montgomery

d)

Birmingham

2.

What was the outcome of the campaign in Selma?

a)

Ultimately it was a failure, but valuable lessons were learned that would help in the next city

b)

The President called for a Voting Rights Act to be passed in Congress

c)

MLK emerged as a well know leader of the Civil Rights Movement

d)

It became more solely a black movement as white support decreased

3.

Which civil rights leader was in charge of the Selma to Montgomery march?

a)

Stokely Carmichael

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Martin Luther King Jr.

d)

Nelson Mandela

4.

What were the activists of Selma campaigning for?

a)

Voting rights

b)

Immigration rights

c)

An end to segregation in public education

d)

The desegregation of public transportation

5.

What kept black southerns from voting in 1965?

a)

Poll taxes

b)

Literacy tests

c)

The risk of being fired or physically harmed

d)

All of the above

6.

Who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964?

a)

Corretta Scott King

b)

Martin Luther King jr.

c)

Rosa Parks

d)

Jessie Jackson

7.

What President signed the voting rights bill into law?

a)

President Nixon

b)

President Johnson

c)

President Kennedy

d)

President Obama

8.

Where did the bus boycott take place?

a)

Atlanta Georgia

b)

Houston Texas

c)

Montgomery Alabama

d)

Selma Alabama

9.

Who led the march from Selma to Montgomery?

a)

John Lewis

b)

Martin Luther King Jr.

c)

Jimmie Lee Jackson

d)

Malcolm X

10.

What was the name of the bridge that connected Selma to Montgomery

a)

Edmund Pettus Bridge

b)

Golden Gate Bridge

c)

Unity Bridge

d)

Ronald Reagan Bridge

11.

What was the name of the church where activists held civil rights meetings and was later bombed, killing young girls?

a)

Liberty Temple

b)

Freedom Temple

c)

16th Street Baptist Church

d)

Assemblies of God

12.

What does the word Lynch mean?

a)

To suffocate

b)

To drown

c)

To hang

d)

To shoot

13.

People who think or feel that they are superior to people of other races are referred to as?

a)

Prejudice

b)

Prideful

c)

Arrogant

d)

Racist

14.

What was the name of the movement that involved Martin Luther king Jr?

a)

The Civil Rights Movement

b)

The Freedom Movement

c)

The Resistance Movement

d)

The Fighter Movement

15.

What was the name of the woman who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger while she was sitting in the colored section of the bus?

a)

Rose Smith

b)

Roselyn Waters

c)

Rosalita Buchanan

d)

Rosa Parks

16.

Where is the Edmund Pettus Bridge located?

a)

Selma, Alabama

b)

Jackson, Mississippi

c)

Money, Mississippi

d)

Montgomery, Alabama

17.

The outcome of the Brown Vs. Topeka case was that...

a)

Schools were desegregated

b)

Schools were segregated

c)

It was illegal to be racist

d)

Separate but equal

18.

What was the result of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

a)

Banned literacy tests

b)

Desegregated schools

c)

Ended segregation in public places

d)

Desegregated buses

19.

Who was the African-American student whose family challenged public school segregation?

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Linda Brown

c)

Thurgood Marshall

d)

MLK