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WorksheetsCivil Rights/Social Justice Trivia
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Why was Emmett Till murdered by white men in Mississippi?
He whistled at a white woman
He used a whites-only restroom
He punched a white boy who bullied him
He did not move off of the sidewalk to let a white family pass
Kennedy demonstrated his support for the civil rights movement most clearly when he
Used federal troops to desegregate the University of Mississippi
Signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Used federal troops to desegregate public schools in Little Rock, Arkansas
Attended Malcolm X’s funeral
Which earlier decision did the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, decision reverse?
Milliken v. Bradley
Plessy v. Ferguson
Roe v. Wade
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Which one of the following activists led the march on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7th, 1965
John Lewis
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcom X
Charles Hamilton Houston
Which psychologist(s) provided scientific evidence crucial to the Brown v. Board of Education ruling
B.F. Skinner
Earl Warren
Thurgood Marshal and Linda Brown
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
What was President Eisenhower's response to the Brown v. Board of Education ruling
He fully supported it
He tacitly supported it
He publicly denounced it
He said nothing
The Twenty-Fourth Amendment
Prohibited segregation in all public places
Allowed blacks to vote for the first time
Outlawed poll taxes as a requirement for voting in federal elections
Lowered the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 differed from all previous pieces of civil rights legislation and Supreme Court decisions in that it
Specifically protected blacks’ right to vote in federal elections
Also outlawed gender discrimination
Banned segregation in federal offices
Said that there was no scientific justification for racial discrimination
Ezell Blair Jr., Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil and David Richmond, black college students in North Carolina who became known as the Greensboro Four, inspired a sit-in movement in 1960 when they refused to leave the segregated lunch counter of what store chain?
J.S. Penney
Sears, Roebuck & Co.
F.W. Woolworth
Montgomery Ward
On what subject did the Supreme Court rule in Loving v. Virginia?
Poll taxes
Segregated restaurants
Interracial marriage
Segregated hospitals
