NEW
Font size
WorksheetsCivil Rights Movement Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Who worked as a professor of English at Alabama State?
Rosa Parks
Claudette Colvin
Jo Ann Robinson
Martin Luther King Jr.
What was the name given to the laws that enforced a system of white supremacy and discriminated against blacks?
Segregation laws
Jim Crow laws
Discrimination laws
Supremacy laws
What was the name of the organization formed to lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Women's Political Council (WPC)
Who was the 15-year-old girl arrested for refusing to give up her seat months before Rosa Parks?
Mary Louise Smith
Claudette Colvin
Aurelia Browder
Susie McDonald
Who was the president of the Women's Political Council (WPC) that helped organize the bus boycott?
Rosa Parks
Coretta Scott King
Jo Ann Robinson
Ella Baker
Which 1954 Supreme Court case ruled that 'separate but equal' schools were unconstitutional?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Korematsu v. United States
What alternative transportation method did boycotters primarily use?
Carpools
Bicycles
Walking
Taxis
Who was chosen as the spokesperson for the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
E.D. Nixon
Ralph Abernathy
Martin Luther King Jr.
Fred Gray
What was the fine Rosa Parks was ordered to pay for violating the segregation law?
$5
$10
$14
$20
Who said, "My feets is tired, but my soul is rested"?
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King Jr.
Mother Pollard
E.D. Nixon
Which organization was instrumental in organizing the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Who was the first person to be arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a Montgomery bus?
Aurelia Browder
Mary Louise Smith
Claudette Colvin
Rosa Parks
Which event in December of 1955 is considered the starting point for the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
The arrest of Rosa Parks
The March on Washington
The Selma to Montgomery marches
The Freedom Rides
After Rosa Parks was arrested, all African Americans refused to ride the bus or _________________________________ riding the bus for over a year.
desegregated
segregated
boycotted
continued
Select the correct answer
Incorrect
Correct
Incorrect
Incorrect
Why did the mayor and police commissioner visit Martin Luther King, Jr.'s house?
King's house had been bombed
They played poker every Thursday
King had overdue library books
They were good friends with King
Why did JoAnn Robinson and her colleagues use the mimeograph machines at Alabama State
To grade final exams
To make flyers announcing the boycott
What happened to JoAnn Robinson's car?
Someone poured acid on it
It was in a crash
It broke down
She got a flat tire
What was something that the boycotters were NOT demanding?
Courteous treatment
Hiring black drivers and more stops in black neighborhoods
First-come, first served seating
Desegregation
What did the police begin doing as the boycott moved into 1956?
They helped direct traffic for the carpoolers
They targeted carpool drivers for traffic tickets
They helped organize the carpool
They brought doughnuts to the carpoolers
