WorksheetsCivil Rights Movement Task Cards Review
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 12mins
How were African Americans prevented from voting during most of the 20th century?
literacy tests
poll taxes
intimidation and violence
all of these
He was a pastor and civil rights leader who organized non violent protests for equal rights.
Malcolm X
Jackie Robinson
Frederick Douglas
Martin Luther King, Jr.
She was a NAACP secretary who prompted the Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing to give up her seat on a bus.
Viola Desmond
Claudette Colvin
Rosa Parks
Harriet Tubman
What amendment to the Constitution guarantees due process and equal protection rights to ALL citizens?
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
What supreme court case upheld racial segregation laws under the doctrine of "separate but equal"?
Brown v. Board of Education
Jim Crow Laws
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Plessy v. Ferguson
Which Supreme Court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and orders schools to be integrated?
Dred Scott V. Sandford
Craig V. Boren
Jim Crow Laws
Brown v. Board of Education
What early 1960s movement by SNCC and CORE members tried to desegregate buses in the south?
Freedom Riders
Freedom Summer
SCOPE Project
Albany Movement
In addition to African Americans, what other groups were fighting for equal rights in the 1960s and 1970s?
Mexican Americans
Native Americans
Asian Americans
All of these
He was the segregationist Governor of Alabama who refused to integrate schools and businessess.
Paul E. Wilson
George Wallace
Milton Korman
John Davis
What event made Martin Luther King Jr. become a nationally prominent civil rights leader?
The Selma Campaign
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Watts Riots
Freedom Summer
How did John F. Kennedy most clearly show his support for the civil rights movement?
He was actually against civil rights
He signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act
He attended Malcolm X's funeral
Used federal troops to desegregate the University of Mississippi
Whose writings and practices inspired Martin Luther Kign Jr. and other nonviolent civil rights protesters?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Mohandas Gandhi
James Meredith
What American Muslim minister advocated for black pride and armed self-defense?
Malcolm X
George Wallace
Marcus Garvey
John Davis
What event had 250,000 people rally and hear Martin Luther King, jr. give his famous "I Have a Dream" speech?
Albany Movement
Selma March
Bloody Sunday
1963 March on WAshington
Which President supported the civil rights movement the LEAST?
Harry Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 do?
outlawed literacy tests
sent authorities to the south to help African Americans register to vote
boosted African American political participation in the south
all of these
What law did Lyndon Johnson sign that outlaws discrimination based on race, religion, sex, and national origin?
1957 Civil Rights Act
1960 Civil Rights Act
1964 Civil Rights Act
1968 Civil Rights Act
What was prompted after the occurrence of violence against peaceful civil rights protestors in Selma, Alabama?
Passage of the Voting Rights Act
Passage of the 1957 Civil Rights Act
'The March on Washington
Watts Riots
Which U.S. president protected freedom riders with federal escorts?
Lyndon B. Johnson
Dwight Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Harry Truman
What organization was founded by Martin Luther King, Jr.?
SCLC
SNCC
CORE
NAACP
What did the Twenty Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution do?
prohibited segregation in all places
outlawed federal election poll taxes
gave African Americans voting rights
lowered the voting age from 21-18
What state and local laws enforced racial segregation in the Southern U.S.?
Black codes
Jim Crow Laws
Apartheid laws
Slave codes
What militant civil rights political party, created in California, was started due to police brutality?
Black Cougars
Ku Klux Klan
Black Panthers
Black Resistance Party
He was an NAACP attorney who argued for desegregation in Brown v. Board of Education. He was the first African American on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Clarence Thomas
W.E.B. Du Bois
Marcus Garvey
Thurgood Marshall
