WorksheetsCivil Rights Movement Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Who was the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi?
Fannie Lou Hamer
Anne Moody
James Meredith
Medgar Evers
Who dedicated her life to the civil rights movement after being kicked off a plantation?
Anne Moody
Fannie Lou Hamer
Emmett Till
Medgar Evers
Who wrote an autobiography about growing up in Mississippi as an African American female during the Civil Rights Movement?
James Meredith
Medgar Evers
Anne Moody
Emmett Till
Who was killed outside his house for reporting bad things happening to African Americans?
Emmett Till
Medgar Evers
James Meredith
Fannie Lou Hamer
Who was the fourteen-year-old boy killed in Mississippi after a cashier said he liked her?
Medgar Evers
James Meredith
Emmett Till
Anne Moody
True or False: Tougaloo College was forced to follow the Jim Crow-era laws because it was a public university.
True
False
True or False: Tougaloo College was considered the cradle of the Civil Rights Movement beginning in the early 1950s.
True
False
Which of the following is a famous graduate of Tougaloo College?
James Meredith
Fannie Lou Hamer
Anne Moody
Emmett Till
True or False: Tougaloo College is located on what used to be a slave plantation.
True
False
What did Tougaloo College begin training former slaves for after Reconstruction?
Civil rights activism
New careers
University education
Political roles
