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Power to the People Civil Rights Movement 2

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

True or False

The Black Panther Party is Responsible for the introduction of the School Breakfast Programs.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

2.

Match the following

a)

Attempted to enroll in the University of Oklahoma

1.

McLaurin

b)

JFK called in federal troops for this man to go to college

2.

James Meredith

c)

Lawyer for the NAACP, later First Black appointed to the Supreme Court

3.

Thurgood Marshall

d)

The Father of Black History

4.

Carter G. Woodson

e)

Founded CORE

Congress for Racial Equality in 1942

5.

James Farmer

3.

Match the following

a)

1865

1.

ThweThe First Migration

b)

1950's

2.

The Second migration begins

c)

Booker T. Washington's Philosophy

3.

Hard work

Learning skills

education

d)

W.E.B. DuBois

4.

The only way to get equality is to have it mandated through law.

e)

Ida B. Wells

5.

Native of Mississippi

lead the anti-lynching campaign Wrote the Red Record

4.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is also known as the (a)  

5.

Match the following

a)

SNCC

1.

STUDENT NON-VIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE

b)

CORE

2.

CONGRESS FOR RACIAL EQUALITY

c)

SCLC

3.

SOUTHERN CHRISTAIN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE

d)

BPP

4.

BLACK PANTHER PARTY

e)

DEJURE

5.

SEGREGATION BY LAW

6.

Match the following

a)

CREATED BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR TO DISCRIMINATE BLACKS

1.

BLACK CODES

b)

LAWS CREATED IN LOUSIANNA TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST PEOPLE OF COLOR

2.

CODE NOIR

c)

LAWS CREATED AFTER THE CIVIL WAR TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST BLACKS

3.

JIM CROW

d)

DE FACTO

4.

PERSON PERSONALLY CHOOSES TO BE SEGREGATED

e)

THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT

5.

ABOLITISHED SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES

7.

This women accused Emmett Till of sexually assaulting her in 1955. She died just recently at age 88. Who is she?

4 lines
8.

These dynamic African American men founded the Black Panther Party in 1966

a)

Bobby Seales and Huey Newton

b)

McFadden and Whitehead

c)

Cain and Able

d)

Tito and Jackie Jackson

9.

Match the following

a)

First Black to have a television show

1.

Nat King Cole

b)

First Black to win an academy award

2.

Hattie McDaniel

c)

First Black to graduate from Harvard Univeristy

3.

W.E.B. DuBois

d)

First black to graduate from Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas

4.

Ernest Green

e)

First African American woman millionaire

5.

Madame C.J. Walker

10.

Match the following

a)

First African American woman to run for President of the United States

1.

Shirley Chisolm

b)

First Black newspaper

2.

Freedom's Journel

c)

The first Black-0wned television network

3.

BET

SOLD TO WHITE COOPERATION 2000

d)

FIRST BLACK WOMEN ELECTED TO CONGRESS

4.

Shirley Chisolm

e)

First Black Woman to graduate from college - 1862

Oberlin College

5.

Mary Jane Patterson