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Module 15: Civil Rights

Total questions: 47

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who This?

(a)  

2.

Who This?

(a)  

3.

Who This?

(a)  

4.

What does SCLC stand for?

(a)  

5.

This bus was a part of what type of protest?

a)

Freedom Ride

b)

Sit-In

c)

March

d)

Boycott

6.

This was a picture of what type of non-violent protest?

a)

Sit-In

b)

Freedom Ride

c)

Boycott

d)

March

7.

What was the significance of Brown v. Board of Education?

a)

ended the poll tax

b)

gave african americans the right to vote

c)

made segregation legal

d)

overturned segregation

8.

What did Plessy v. Ferguson establish

a)

states rights

b)

separate but equal

c)

de-segregation

d)

right to vote amongst african americans

9.

What year was the Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education Decision made

a)

1954

b)

1896

c)

1963

d)

1945

10.

Who were MLK Jr.'s influences

a)

Gandhi, Thoreau, Douglass, Wilson

b)

Thoreau, Gandhi, Jesus, Randolph

c)

God, Jesus, Thoreau, Randolph

d)

Gandhi, Churchill, Randolph, Jesus

11.

organization of college students dedicated to protesting segregation

a)

SCLC

b)

SNCC

c)

CORE

d)

NAACP

12.

NAACP lawyer who successfully argued the brown v. board case which overturned plessy v. ferguson

a)

Thurgood Marshall

b)

Clarence Thomas

c)

William Randolph

d)

James Lawson

13.

civil rights activists who rode interstate busses challenging segregated bus terminals

(a)  

14.

Air force veteran who tried to register at "Ole Miss"

a)

James Meredith

b)

Thurgood Marshall

c)

James Lawson

d)

George Wallace

15.

movement to desegregate lunch counters

(a)  

16.

movement to register voters in Mississippi

a)

Freedom Rides

b)

Freedom Summer

c)

Sit-Ins

d)

March on Selma

17.

MFDC stands for

a)

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

b)

Missouri Freedom Democratic Party

c)

Montana Freedom Democratic party

d)

Maine Freedom Democratic party

18.

the purpose of the MFDC was to

a)

advocate for representation of blacks in state government

b)

lunch counter sit-ins

c)

Marching on Selma

d)

Advocate for Voting Rights

19.

Who This?

(a)  

20.

Who This?

a)

Fannie Lou Hamer

b)

Big Mamma Thornton

c)

Diane Nash

d)

Rosa parks

21.

Who was the public safety commissioner in Birmingham

(a)  

22.

taught classes on how to react non-violently during sit-ins

a)

James Bevel

b)

James Meredith

c)

Martin Luther King Jr.

d)

James Lawson

23.

governor of Alabama who stated "Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever"

a)

George Wallace

b)

Ross Barnett

c)

Hugo Lewis

d)

Jim clark

24.

What was the goal of the March on washington

a)

pass a civil rights bill

b)

pass a voting rights bill

c)

overturn brown v. board of education

d)

desegregate busses

25.

nickname of the students who tried to desegregate a high school in Arkansas

(a)  

26.

segregation that exists by practice, custom, primarily in the north

a)

de jure segregation

b)

de facto segregation

c)

jim crow laws

d)

low key segregation

27.

segregation by law

a)

de jure segregation

b)

de facto segregation

c)

jim james segregation

d)

southern ways

28.

black militant leader who did not want help from whites, called for black separation from whites

a)

Malcolm X

b)

Louis Farrakhan

c)

Stokely Carmichael

d)

James Meredith

29.

religious group known as black muslims that promoted black separation and Islam

a)

Nation of Islam

b)

SCLC

c)

SNCC

d)

Black Panthers

30.

political party founded in Oakland to fight police brutality

a)

Nation of Islam

b)

Black panthers

c)

SNCC

d)

SCLC

31.

policy to equalize education, employment and to give minorities a chance to advance in society

a)

affirmative action

b)

voting rights act of 1965

c)

civil rights act of 1964

d)

de-segregation

32.

Who this?

(a)  

33.

Who this?

a)

Betty Freidan

b)

Rosa Parks

c)

Big Mamma Thornton

d)

Emmy Harris

34.

Who this?

a)

Gloria Steinem

b)

Emmy Harris

c)

Betty Freidan

d)

Big mamma Thornton

35.

Who this?

a)

Condoleezza Rice

b)

Big Mamma Thornton

c)

Michelle Obama

d)

Sonia Sotomayor

36.

Who this?

a)

Jesse Jackson

b)

Barack Obama

c)

Caesar Chavez

d)

Colin Powell

37.

Who This?

(a)  

38.

Who This?

(a)  

39.

Who This?

a)

Sonia Sotomayor

b)

Hillary Clinton

c)

Kamala Harris

d)

Condoleezza Rice

40.

organized farm workers to form a union and advocate for better treatment

a)

Caesar Chavez

b)

Adolfo Hugo

c)

Corky Gonzales

d)

Jesse jackson

41.

the belief that women should have economic, political, and social equality

a)

feminism

b)

ERA

c)

girl power

d)

affirmative action

42.

author of the feminine mystique who advocated for women's independence

a)

Betty Freidan

b)

Condoleezza Rice

c)

Hillary Clinton

d)

Gloria Steinem

43.

ERA stands for

(a)  

44.

The ERA is now set in the constitution

a)

True

b)

False

45.

became the first hispanic to serve on the US Supreme Court

a)

Sonia Sotomayor

b)

Condoleezza Rice

c)

Thurgood Marshall

d)

Caesar Chavez

46.

what type of protest did Caesar Chavez use to gain national attention

a)

Sit-In

b)

Freedom Ride

c)

Boycott

d)

March

47.

credited as the beginning of the LGBT movement

a)

Stonewall Riots

b)

Watts Riots

c)

Ferguson riots

d)

Detroit Riots