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Origins of the Civil Rights Movement

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What was the result of the Brown versus Board of Education court case in 1954?
a)
Segregation of public schools became illegal
b)
African Americans began to play professional sports
c)
Martin Luther King led the March on Washington
d)
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus
2.

**Look at the image**

What was one way the decision described in this passage affected the United States in the first half of the 20th century?

a)

Minorities were not allowed to attend schools with whites.

b)

Affirmative action programs were ruled unconstitutional.

c)

Poll taxes in federal elections were unconstitutional.

3.
1865 - abolished slavery and involuntary servitude
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendent
c)
15th Amendment
4.

Laws that were in place in the South that led to the Civil Rights Movement?

a)

Jim Crow

b)

Jim Bird

c)

Jon Snow

d)

Dr. King

5.
Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice, first became famous for which of the following:
a)
Organizing the March on Washington
b)
Not giving us his bus seat
c)
Winning the court case of Brown versus Board of Education
d)
Giving African Americans the right to vote
6.
Which Amendment states that anyone born in the United States is a citizen?
a)
14th
b)
15th
c)
16th
d)
13th
7.

A struggle for social justice during the 50s and 60s for African Americans to gain equal rights under the law was called?

a)

Executive Order 9981

b)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

c)

Civil Rights Movement

d)

March on Washington

8.

The Court Case that overturned “Separate but Equal” ruling?

a)

Plessy v Ferguson

b)

Brown vs Board of Education

c)

Regents of UC Davis v Bakke

9.

Who was the first African-American baseball player to join the major leagues?

a)

Derek Jeter

b)

Jackie Robinson

c)

Willie Mays

d)

Jonas Salk

10.

Which Supreme Court case ruled that UT's law school for African Americans failed to qualify as, "separate but equal?"

a)

Miranda v. Arizona

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson

c)

Brown v. Board

d)

Sweatt v. Painter