Civil Rights History
Instructions: Test your knowledge of the civil rights movement and the brave individuals who fought for equality
- 1.
In 1955, whose refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama helped spark the civil rights movement?
AFannie Lou HamerBElla BakerCCoretta Scott KingDRosa Parks - 2.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech was delivered during which event in 1963?
AFreedom RidesBSelma to Montgomery marchesCMontgomery Bus BoycottDMarch on Washington - 3.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by which president?
ADwight D. EisenhowerBLyndon B. JohnsonCRichard NixonDJohn F. Kennedy - 4.
The 'Little Rock Nine' were students who integrated which school in 1957?
AUniversity of MississippiBCentral High School in Little Rock, ArkansasCTopeka High School, KansasDUniversity of Alabama - 5.
Who founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909?
AW.E.B. Du Bois and othersBFrederick DouglassCBooker T. WashingtonDMarcus Garvey - 6.
The Voting Rights Act was passed in which year?
A1960B1965C1968D1963 - 7.
Which civil rights leader advocated for Black nationalism and was assassinated in 1965?
AFred HamptonBMedgar EversCStokely CarmichaelDMalcolm X - 8.
The sit-in movement gained national attention in 1960 when four Black college students sat at a Woolworth's lunch counter in which city?
AAtlanta, GeorgiaBNashville, TennesseeCBirmingham, AlabamaDGreensboro, North Carolina - 9.
Who was the NAACP lawyer who argued the Brown v. Board of Education case and later became the first Black Supreme Court justice?
ARobert CarterBThurgood MarshallCClarence ThomasDCharles Hamilton Houston - 10.
The Freedom Riders in 1961 were testing the desegregation of what?
APublic schoolsBInterstate buses and bus terminalsCVoting boothsDRestaurants and hotels - 11.
Which city's police used fire hoses and police dogs against civil rights demonstrators in 1963, shocking the nation?
ASelma, AlabamaBBirmingham, AlabamaCJackson, MississippiDMemphis, Tennessee - 12.
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in which city in 1968?
AAtlanta, GeorgiaBMemphis, TennesseeCBirmingham, AlabamaDWashington, D.C. - 13.
Which organization, co-founded by Martin Luther King Jr., played a central role in the civil rights movement?
ANAACPBCongress of Racial Equality (CORE)CSouthern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)DStudent Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) - 14.
The March from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 was organized to demand what?
ASchool integrationBFair housingCEqual employmentDVoting rights - 15.
Emmett Till's murder in 1955 became a catalyst for the civil rights movement. How old was he?
A14 years oldB12 years oldC18 years oldD16 years old