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WorksheetsCivil Rights Movement 2026
Total questions: 44
Worksheet time: 7mins
Plessy Vs. Ferguson established......
Schools must be segregated
Interstate Buses must be desegregated
Separate but equal was constitutional
Separate but equal was unconstitutional
Name given to the laws that separated black and white facilities
Joe Crow
Jack Sparrow
Jim Crow
Jeb Bluejay
African American teenager kidnapped and killed for whistling at a white woman
Bob Dylan
Emmett Till
Malcom X
Jim Crow
Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas overturned which previous case and established that separate could not be equal
McCullough vs. Georgia
Plessey Vs. Ferguson
Roe Vs. Wade
Browder vs. Gayle
Rosa Parks refusal to give up her seat sparked this.
The Selma March
The March on Washington
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Greensboro Sit-in
This occurred at a Woolworth's lunch counter when four students protested segregation
The Selma March
The March on Washington
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Greensboro Sit-in
The passengers riding busses to test laws came to be known as
The brave 13
The freedom riders
The little rock 9
Bussin' for real
Organized a march on Washington before MLK did
A Philip Randolph
Marcus Garvey
Malcolm X
John Carlos
Was the only student in her class and was escorted to school by US Marshalls
Rosa Parks
Betty Frieden
Ruby Bridges
Barbara Henry
Who wrote the Letter from a Birmingham Jail?
Malcolm X
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Rosa Parks
Stokely Carmichael
Assassinated at a Memphis hotel
Malcolm X
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Rosa Parks
Stokely Carmichael
Preached black supremacy and keeping races separate as a leader of the Nation of Islam , but would change his views.
Malcolm X
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Rosa Parks
Stokely Carmichael
This group was protected at school by the 101st Airborne
Little Rock 9
Birmingham 7
Selma 3
Washington 6
which program was NOT created as part of President Johnson's Great Society
Federal funding for railroads
Medicare and Medicaid
Financial assistance for low income students
Free college education for everyone
Girl who refused to get up months before Rosa
Frances Perkins
Rosa Parks
Claudette Colvin
Betty Friedan
Project to register African American voters
Freedom Rides
Freedom Summer
Votes-for-All
Rock the Vote
White supremacist terror organization that bombed black churches and homes
KKK
CORE
SCLC
SNCC
MLK led a march from this town to Montgomery to protest for voting rights
Mobile
Atlanta
Chicago
Selma
Nickname given to describe the first day of the Selma march where Marchers were attacked by police with tear gas, dogs and billy clubs
Violent Monday
Bloody Monday
Bloody Sunday
Wild Wednesday
Changed his name because it had been given to his ancestors by the white man
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
Stokely Carmichael
Huey Newton
What were Malcolm X's early views
Black Supremacy and separating the races
Peace for all
Integration and acceptance
He had no views
What event caused Malcolm X to change his views on race and equality
The death of his mother
His pilgrimage to Mecca
His conversion to the Nation of Islam
The death of MLK
Malcolm X's change in views...
Got him put in Jail
caused death threats and his eventual assaniation
Caused the rise in his political career
Caused him to shy away from public life
Most destructive riot of The Long Hot Summer happened in this city
Detroit
New Orleans
Watts
Los Angeles
The Kerner Commission found the reason for unrest in Black American communities was caused by
frustration with the lack of opportunities
Dislike of the federal government
Misinformation campaigns
There was no reason
Killed MLK
Jack Ruby
James Earl Ray
Lee Harvey Oswald
The KKK
the Civil Rights Act of 1968 banned discrimination based on
race
gender
religion
Race, gender, religion and family status
How did John Carlos and Tommie Smith protest at the 1968 Olympics
They refused to participate
They did a sit-in
they did the black power salute on the medal podium
They assaulted an official
This activist used nonviolent protests to help migrant farm workers
Malcolm X
Betty Friedan
Dolores Huerta
Medgar Evers
Had a violent reputation because they carried weapons, but also provided much needed social services
Black power
Black Panthers
Black Progressives
Nation of Islam
Created to preserve culture and language of Native Americans
National Congress of American Indians
National Senate of Native Americans
Iroquois Confederacy
Congress of Racial Equality
Popularized the Black Power Movement
Malcolm X
MLK
Huey Newton
Stokely Carmichael
This group occupied Wounded Knee for 71 days
National Congress of American Indians
American Indian Movement
Black Panthers
KKK
This event helped spark the LGBTQ+ movement
Civil Rights Act
March on Washington
Death of MLK
Stonewall Inn Riots
The Feminine Mystique by this author was a prominent book in the feminist movement
Sarah Grimke
Angelina Grimke
Betty Friedan
Susan B. Anthony
This requires schools to fund men's and women's sports equally
Title IV
Title X
Title IX
Title XI
This woman argued that the Equal Rights Amendment would disrupt the American Family
Betty Friedan
Phyllis Schlafly
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ellen Smith Howe
When was the Equal Rights Amendment ratified by the states
1983
1968
2001
It never was
This legislation requires public places to have accommodations such as ramps and elevators for people with disabilities
Equal Rights Amendment
Disabled In Action
Title IX
Americans with Disabilities Act
Refusal to use a product, service or location as a protest
Segregation
Boycott
Prejudice
SNCC
the act of protesting laws while not hurting other people or destroying property
Boycott
nonviolent civil disobedience
His non-violent protests in India inspired MLK
MLK
Ghandi
Malcolm X
How does this illustration demonstrate the "separate but equal" idea?
It shows that facilities were separate and equal
It shows that those facilities were separate but NOT equal
. It shows that separate facilities are provided and equal in the fact they both are drinking fountains
It shows that the fountains are separate but equal in height
Site of the event which would be the spark for the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement
The Stonewall Inn
The Selma Bridge
The Detroit riot
The city of Boston
