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Civil Rights Movement Quiz

Total questions: 8

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was the first African American student to be integrated into Central High School in Arkansas after being denied entry by Governor Faubus?

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

c)

Little Rock Nine

d)

Freedom Riders

2.

Which Supreme Court case claimed that segregated schools denied black children an equal educational opportunity and overturned a previous ruling legalizing segregation?

a)

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

b)

Brown v. Board of Education (1960)

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

Civil Disobedience

3.

Who was the leader of the Civil Rights Movement who supported using civil disobedience to protest unjust laws?

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

c)

Orval Faubus

d)

President Eisenhower

4.

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?

a)

Freedom Riders

b)

Greensboro Four

c)

Little Rock Nine

d)

Civil Disobedience

5.

Which Supreme Court case legalized segregation through the "separate but equal" ruling?

a)

Brown v. Board of Education (1960)

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

Civil Disobedience

6.

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?

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Little Rock Nine

c)

Freedom Riders

d)

Greensboro Four

7.

Who sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to escort African American students into the newly-desegregated High School?

a)

Orval Faubus

b)

President Eisenhower

c)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

d)

Rosa Parks

8.

Nonviolent protest of unjust laws; supported by MLK, Jr.

a)
Passive resistance
b)
Peaceful protest
c)
Rebellion
d)
Civil disobedience