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WorksheetsCivil RIghts
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 27mins
What did a lot of Black veterans experience when they came back from WWII?
equality
discrimination
chances to attend college for free
travel
__________ lead the first wave of the Civil Rights Movement.
MLK
JFK
Freedom Riders
Black WWII Veterans
What is being described below?
A nonviolent method of fighting Jim Crow laws.
Obedience
Violent Ignorance
Civil Disobedience
Rebellion
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.
Thurgood Marshall
Diane Nash
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King Jr.
What was the purpose of the Sit-Ins?
to practice self-control
to relax
to peacefully protest segregated restaurants and force change
to encourage the government to step in and change the housing laws
What started the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
The Montgomery Riot
Rosa Park's arrest
MLK's arrest
The new law against foot travel
What was the purpose of the Freedom Rides?
To travel across the country on a bus
To protest the discrimination in restaurants
To create a crisis in order to force the federal government to enforce the law.
To force the bus company to put nicer bathrooms in the buses
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.
Brown vs. Board of Education
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Housen vs. Board of Education
September court case
What was the outcome of the Brown vs. Board of Education case?
Brown lost
The Board of Education won
Schools stayed segregated
Schools were desegregated
Fill in the blank!
The _________________ planned to attend classes at Central High School in Little Rock, AK which was still a segregated school.
Little Rock 5
Arkansas 7
Little Rock 9
Freedom Riders
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.
The Governor
The President
The Mail Man
The Mayor
The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted ______________.
over 1 year
4 years and 7 months
6 months and 3 days
1 day
What's the formal name for breaking laws that were thought to be unjust in a peaceful way to get them changed?
"No go" protest
Rioting
Nontraditional protest
Civil Disobedience
What organization created by W.E.B. Dubois sought immediate equality for minorities?
WAC
HUAC
NAACP
SNCC
-Supreme Court case in which justices agreed that a Negro must be admitted at the University of Texas School of Law
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Sweatt v. Painter
Sherman Antitrust Act
What decision did Emmett's mother make that impacted the Civil Rights movement?
Spoke out on the news
Testified in court
Had an open casket funeral
Marched in Mississippi
Which of the following forms of protest would James Lawson NOT have approved?
sit-in
bus boycott
riot
march
For what reason were many sit-ins staged?
to demand jobs for Black workers
to win free land for poor families
to challenge the activities of the SCLC
to protest segregation in public places
In 1961, Martin Luther King, Jr. led a nonviolent protest in the city of ___________, but his efforts received little national exposure.
Albany
Birmingham
Chicago
Selma
NAACP leader Medgar Evers was murdered in _______. This event horrified many Americans.
1961
1963
1965
1968
