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Civil RIghts

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 27mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What did a lot of Black veterans experience when they came back from WWII?

a)

equality

b)

discrimination

c)

chances to attend college for free

d)

travel

2.

__________ lead the first wave of the Civil Rights Movement.

a)

MLK

b)

JFK

c)

Freedom Riders

d)

Black WWII Veterans

3.

What is being described below?


A nonviolent method of fighting Jim Crow laws.

a)

Obedience

b)

Violent Ignorance

c)

Civil Disobedience

d)

Rebellion

4.

Who is being described below?


Fantastic speaker, leader of the nonviolent Civil Rights Movement, a preacher, felt very strongly about changing the world for good.

a)

Thurgood Marshall

b)

Diane Nash

c)

Rosa Parks

d)

Martin Luther King Jr.

5.

What was the purpose of the Sit-Ins?

a)

to practice self-control

b)

to relax

c)

to peacefully protest segregated restaurants and force change

d)

to encourage the government to step in and change the housing laws

6.

What started the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

a)

The Montgomery Riot

b)

Rosa Park's arrest

c)

MLK's arrest

d)

The new law against foot travel

7.

What was the purpose of the Freedom Rides?

a)

To travel across the country on a bus

b)

To protest the discrimination in restaurants

c)

To create a crisis in order to force the federal government to enforce the law.

d)

To force the bus company to put nicer bathrooms in the buses

8.

What event is being described below:


A father sued city of Topeka, KS because his daughter, could not attend the school closest to their home since she was black.

a)

Brown vs. Board of Education

b)

Plessy vs. Ferguson

c)

Housen vs. Board of Education

d)

September court case

9.

What was the outcome of the Brown vs. Board of Education case?

a)

Brown lost

b)

The Board of Education won

c)

Schools stayed segregated

d)

Schools were desegregated

10.

Fill in the blank!

The _________________ planned to attend classes at Central High School in Little Rock, AK which was still a segregated school.

a)

Little Rock 5

b)

Arkansas 7

c)

Little Rock 9

d)

Freedom Riders

11.

Fill in the blank:

When the Little Rock 9 tried to attend school at Central High School, ____________________ did not want them to and called the National Guard to stop them.

a)

The Governor

b)

The President

c)

The Mail Man

d)

The Mayor

12.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted ______________.

a)

over 1 year

b)

4 years and 7 months

c)

6 months and 3 days

d)

1 day

13.

What's the formal name for breaking laws that were thought to be unjust in a peaceful way to get them changed?

a)

"No go" protest

b)

Rioting

c)

Nontraditional protest

d)

Civil Disobedience

14.

What organization created by W.E.B. Dubois sought immediate equality for minorities?

a)

WAC

b)

HUAC

c)

NAACP

d)

SNCC

15.

-Supreme Court case in which justices agreed that a Negro must be admitted at the University of Texas School of Law

a)

Plessy v. Ferguson

b)

Brown v. Board of Education

c)

Sweatt v. Painter

d)

Sherman Antitrust Act

16.

What decision did Emmett's mother make that impacted the Civil Rights movement?

a)

Spoke out on the news

b)

Testified in court

c)

Had an open casket funeral

d)

Marched in Mississippi

17.
Which of the following is true about Emmett Till's murder? 
a)
The crime was never solved. 
b)
It took place in Michigan. 
c)
It was the catalyst of the Civil Rights Movement. 
d)
it took place in 1975.
18.

Which of the following forms of protest would James Lawson NOT have approved?

a)

sit-in

b)

bus boycott

c)

riot

d)

march

19.

For what reason were many sit-ins staged?

a)

to demand jobs for Black workers

b)

to win free land for poor families

c)

to challenge the activities of the SCLC

d)

to protest segregation in public places

20.

In 1961, Martin Luther King, Jr. led a nonviolent protest in the city of ___________, but his efforts received little national exposure.

a)

Albany

b)

Birmingham

c)

Chicago

d)

Selma

21.

NAACP leader Medgar Evers was murdered in _______. This event horrified many Americans.

a)

1961

b)

1963

c)

1965

d)

1968