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2024 Civil Rights Movement Quiz

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is it called when people are separated based on race?

a)

Segregation

b)

Civil Rights

c)

Suffrage

d)

Boycotting

2.
The Plessy vs Ferguson made African American schools truly equal to those of white schools.
a)
True
b)
False
3.

What was Plessy vs. Ferguson?

a)

A case during the Civil War

b)

A case that ended Jim Crow Laws

c)

A case that began "separate, but equal" policies

d)

A case during the Civil Rights Movement

4.

Why were Jim Crow Laws created?

a)

To stop racial segregation

b)

To enforce "separate but equal"

c)

To desegregate the armed forces

d)

To further the Civil Rights Movement

5.
Laws that were intended to keep African American and whites separated in public areas were called________.
a)
Helmet Laws
b)
Lincoln Laws
c)
Jim Crow Laws
6.

The facilities for African Americans and white people had equal conditions.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

Under Jim Crow Laws, requirements to vote made it hard for African Americans to vote.

a)

False

b)

True

8.
The Supreme Court Case that said school segregation was no longer accepted and said African Americans could not be denied the right to attend schools (1954).
a)
Plessy vs Ferguson
b)
Brown 2
c)
Brown vs. Board of Education
9.
True or False: Schools in the South refused to follow the the ruling of Brown Vs The Board of Education and refused to integrate for a very long time.
a)
True
b)
False
10.
How old was Emmett Till when he died?
a)
13
b)
14
c)
15
d)
16
11.
Why was Birmingham nicknamed "Bombingham?"
a)
there was bomb factory there
b)
over 21 African American churches were bombed there in the 1950s and 60s
c)
Martin Luther King Jr gave it this nickname
d)
the people living there liked it better
12.
What did Martin Luther King Jr do while in Birmingham?
a)
helped organize peaceful protests
b)
helped at the hospitals
c)
helped find the people who did the bombing
d)
helped plan the bombings
13.

What is Rosa Parks most famous for?

a)

Being the first black student to attend a white elementary school in the South

b)

Refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white man

c)

She was a nurse during the Civil War who founded the American Red Cross

d)

The first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean

14.

What famous civil rights leader led the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Thurgood Marshall

d)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

15.

Match the following

a)

separation between black and white people in public places

1.
  1. segregation

b)
  1. A court case that resulted in “Separate but Equal”

2.
  1. Plessy vs. Ferguson

c)
  1. laws enforced in the South affecting the freedoms of African Americans

3.
  1. Jim Crow Laws

16.

Match the following

a)

people could live, work, and fight alongside each other, regardless of race

1.
  1. desegregated 

b)

the ability to read

2.

literacy 

c)

a movement for justice and equality for African Americans, ending Jim Crow Laws

3.

Civil Rights Movement