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WorksheetsThe Civil Rights Movement
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 12mins
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1957 do
it increased African American voting in the south by creating a Civil Rights Division U.S. Justice Department
ended discrimination in all public places
ended poll taxes and literacy tests in all states
elected governor of Georgia in 1966; staunch segregationists.
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?
elected governor of Georgia in 1966; staunch segregationists.
banned all segregation in public schools (Thurgood Marshall served as the lawyer and was later appointed as the 1st African American Supreme Court Justice)
ended discrimination in all public places
ended poll taxes and literacy tests in all states
What was "a militant African American political organization formed in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to fight police brutality and to provide services in the ghetto"? Answer is two words.
Black Panthers
Black Knights
Black Eagles
Black Lions
Southern Pastor who founded the SCLC with Ralph Abernathy?
(a)
What was "a form of demonstration used by African Americans to protest discrimination, in which the protesters sit down in a segregated business and refuse to leave until they are served"?
(a)
What were "laws enacted by southern state and local governments to separate white and black people in public and private facilities"? Fill in the blank: (a) laws.
Laws that were in place in the South that led to the Civil Rights Movement?
Jim Crow
Jim Bird
Jon Snow
Dr. King
What was "a 1954 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" education for black and white students was unconstitutional"?
Plessy v Ferguson
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka
Roe v Wade
Marbury v Madison
What methods of protest did Dr. King adopt from Gandhi?
Violent
Sit-Ins
Busing
Nonviolent
What was "an interracial group founded in 1942 by James Farmer to work against segregation in northern cities"?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Congress of Racial Equality
NAACP
National Organization for Women
What was "an 1896 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that separation of the races in public accommodations was legal, thus establishing the "separate but equal" doctrine"?
Plessy v Ferguson
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka
Roe v Wade
Marbury v Madison
The American GI Forum was established in order to-
Help Mexican-American veterans to obtain health care and an education
Organize sit-ins to boycott discriminated against
Give women the opportunity to serve in noncombat roles in the US military
What was "an organization formed in 1957 by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders to work for civil rights through nonviolent means"?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Congress of Racial Equality
NAACP
National Organization for Women
Which amendment did Plessy v Ferguson violate?
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14
15
19
What was "a proposed and failed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would have prohibited any government discrimination on the basis of sex"?
Equal Rights Amendment
Title IX
Gender Equality Amendment
Affirmative Action Amendment
The Congress for Racial Equality was formed in order to-
Achieve integration through nonviolent action and civil disobedience
Destroy public property when discrimination was present
Give Mexican-American veterans the right to education and health care
Allow women to join noncombat roles in the US military
What was "an organization founded in 1909 to promote full racial equality"?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Congress of Racial Equality
NAACP
National Organization for Women
The decision of Brown v. Board of Education was based on the 14th amendment. Which of the following is a phrase from this amendment?
Freedom of speech
Right to a jury
No slavery allowed
Equal protection for all
Which president of the United States signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Martin Luther King Jr.
Barrack Obama
The Court Case that overturned “Separate but Equal” ruling?
Plessy v Ferguson
Brown vs Board of Education
Regents of UC Davis v Bakke
Segregation that exists by custom and practice, not by law.
de jure segregation
de facto segregation
white flight
