WorksheetsCivil Rights and Selma Basics
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
Where is the march from Selma planned to end?
Atlanta
Mobile
Montgomery
Birmingham
What was the outcome of the campaign in Selma?
Ultimately it was a failure, but valuable lessons were learned that would help in the next city
The President called for a Voting Rights Act to be passed in Congress
MLK emerged as a well know leader of the Civil Rights Movement
It became more solely a black movement as white support decreased
Which civil rights leader was in charge of the Selma to Montgomery march?
Stokely Carmichael
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr.
Nelson Mandela
What were the activists of Selma campaigning for?
Voting rights
Immigration rights
An end to segregation in public education
The desegregation of public transportation
What kept black southerns from voting in 1965?
Poll taxes
Literacy tests
The risk of being fired or physically harmed
All of the above
Who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964?
Corretta Scott King
Martin Luther King jr.
Rosa Parks
Jessie Jackson
What President signed the voting rights bill into law?
President Nixon
President Johnson
President Kennedy
President Obama
Where did the bus boycott take place?
Atlanta Georgia
Houston Texas
Montgomery Alabama
Selma Alabama
Who led the march from Selma to Montgomery?
John Lewis
Martin Luther King Jr.
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Malcolm X
What was the name of the bridge that connected Selma to Montgomery
Edmund Pettus Bridge
Golden Gate Bridge
Unity Bridge
Ronald Reagan Bridge
What was the name of the church where activists held civil rights meetings and was later bombed, killing young girls?
Liberty Temple
Freedom Temple
16th Street Baptist Church
Assemblies of God
What does the word Lynch mean?
To suffocate
To drown
To hang
To shoot
People who think or feel that they are superior to people of other races are referred to as?
Prejudice
Prideful
Arrogant
Racist
What was the name of the movement that involved Martin Luther king Jr?
The Civil Rights Movement
The Freedom Movement
The Resistance Movement
The Fighter Movement
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?
Rose Smith
Roselyn Waters
Rosalita Buchanan
Rosa Parks
Where is the Edmund Pettus Bridge located?
Selma, Alabama
Jackson, Mississippi
Money, Mississippi
Montgomery, Alabama
The outcome of the Brown Vs. Topeka case was that...
Schools were desegregated
Schools were segregated
It was illegal to be racist
Separate but equal
What was the result of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Banned literacy tests
Desegregated schools
Ended segregation in public places
Desegregated buses
Who was the African-American student whose family challenged public school segregation?
Rosa Parks
Linda Brown
Thurgood Marshall
MLK
