WorksheetsCivil Rights Movement Quiz
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 4mins
Who was the first African American student to be integrated into Central High School in Arkansas after being denied entry by Governor Faubus?
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Little Rock Nine
Freedom Riders
Which Supreme Court case claimed that segregated schools denied black children an equal educational opportunity and overturned a previous ruling legalizing segregation?
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Brown v. Board of Education (1960)
Jim Crow Laws
Civil Disobedience
Who was the leader of the Civil Rights Movement who supported using civil disobedience to protest unjust laws?
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Orval Faubus
President Eisenhower
Which group of African American college students sat at "Whites Only" lunch counters and refused to leave until they were served to protest against segregation?
Freedom Riders
Greensboro Four
Little Rock Nine
Civil Disobedience
Which Supreme Court case legalized segregation through the "separate but equal" ruling?
Brown v. Board of Education (1960)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Jim Crow Laws
Civil Disobedience
Who was the civil rights activist best known for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white rider in Alabama and was arrested?
Rosa Parks
Little Rock Nine
Freedom Riders
Greensboro Four
Who sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to escort African American students into the newly-desegregated High School?
Orval Faubus
President Eisenhower
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rosa Parks
Nonviolent protest of unjust laws; supported by MLK, Jr.
