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WorksheetsCivil Rights
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
______ ________ are basic freedoms and protections , such as the right to a fair trial.
(a)
What did the Supreme Court ruling on Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 do to segregation?
made it illegal
made schools intergrated
made it legal
there was no decision made
What is the unfair treatment of people based on their race or gender?
discrimination
civil rights
intergration
sit-in
Who stepped on the field at Dodger Stadium in 1947 becoming the first African American to be allowed to play Major League Baseball?
Thurgood Marshall
Michael Jordan
Ralph Bunche
Jackie Robinson
Who became the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Ralph Bunche
Gwendolyn Brooks
Jackie Robinson
Harry Truman
What was the court case called Brown v. Board of Educations of Topeka claiming?
African Americans should be able to use any water fountain
African Americans should be able to go to any movie theater
African Americans students should be able to attend any school.
African Americans should be able to play for Major League baseball.
Who was the lawyer for the NAACP in the Brown v. Board of Education Topeka?
Jackie Robinson
Thurgood Marshall
Linda Brown
Harry Truman
True or False? In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that "separate educational facilities are basically unequal".
True
False
What word means the mixing of different groups?
segregation
discrimination
intergration
nomination
What Jim Crow law did Rosa Parks challenge?
African Americans had to drink from a separate water fountain.
African Americans had to sit at the back of public buses.
African Americans were not allowed to sit at white-only counters.
African Americans could not attend all white schools.
How did African Americans respond to Rosa Parks being arrested?
They staged a sit-in on the buses.
They protested outside of the jail where she was held.
They took legal action and got a lawyer.
They boycotted the city buses.
True or False? Martin Luther King, Jr. believed that violence was sometimes necessary to get results.
True
False
Why did President Eisenhower send 1,000 United States Army soldiers to Little Rock, Arkansas?
To stop the sit-in protest.
To help Martin Luther King, Jr. provide a peaceful protest.
To protect the Little Rock Nine (students who were supposed to attend Central High School).
To stop the protest for integration.
On __________ ________, African Americans and white protestors rode buses together to integrate bus lines.
(a)
On what date did Martin Luther King, Jr. stand on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC and give his famous, "I Have A Dream" speech?
August 28, 1963
August 28, 1964
January 1, 1963
December 1, 1963
What was the name of the event when protestors who were marching for voting rights were met with tear gas and beatings?
Sit-in
Boycott
Bloody Sunday
I Have a Dream speech
What year was the voting rights act passed?
1990
1965
1970
1932
What happened to Martin Luther King, Jr in 1968?
He was named the president of the NAACP.
He lead a protest for voting rights.
He was assassinated.
He got married.
Who became the first African American justice on the United States Supreme Court?
Thurgood Marshall
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Barack Obama
Rosa Parks
What year was Barack Obama elected as president of the United States?
2001
2008
2014
2019
