Civil Rights Leaders Quiz

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Instructions: How well do you remember the brave leaders of the civil rights movement?

1.
Who delivered the famous 'I Have a Dream' speech in 1963?
A
Malcolm X
B
Medgar Evers
C
John Lewis
D
Martin Luther King Jr.
2.
Who refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955?
A
Coretta Scott King
B
Dorothy Height
C
Fannie Lou Hamer
D
Rosa Parks
3.
Which civil rights leader founded the Nation of Islam's influence and later embraced Sunni Islam?
A
Louis Farrakhan
B
Malcolm X
C
Elijah Muhammad
D
Stokely Carmichael
4.
Who was the first African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court?
A
Thurgood Marshall
B
Charles Hamilton Houston
C
Clarence Thomas
D
Robert Carter
5.
Who co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and later became a U.S. Congressman?
A
Bob Moses
B
Andrew Young
C
John Lewis
D
Julian Bond
6.
Which leader organized the 1963 March on Washington?
A
Bayard Rustin
B
Whitney Young
C
A. Philip Randolph
D
Roy Wilkins
7.
Who was the NAACP field secretary murdered in Mississippi in 1963?
A
James Chaney
B
Medgar Evers
C
Vernon Dahmer
D
Emmett Till
8.
Which woman testified about voter registration abuse, saying 'I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired'?
A
Ella Baker
B
Fannie Lou Hamer
C
Diane Nash
D
Septima Clark
9.
Who led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference alongside Dr. King?
A
Jesse Jackson
B
Fred Shuttlesworth
C
Hosea Williams
D
Ralph Abernathy
10.
Which activist helped desegregate interstate bus travel through the Freedom Rides?
A
James Farmer
B
Floyd McKissick
C
Stokely Carmichael
D
Roy Innis
11.
Who was the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress?
A
Shirley Chisholm
B
Barbara Jordan
C
Maxine Waters
D
Carol Moseley Braun
12.
Which leader coined the phrase 'Black Power' during the Meredith March?
A
Stokely Carmichael
B
Bobby Seale
C
H. Rap Brown
D
Huey Newton
13.
Who was the longtime head of the NAACP from 1929 to 1955?
A
Walter White
B
Roy Wilkins
C
James Weldon Johnson
D
W.E.B. Du Bois
14.
Which civil rights leader helped found the National Council of Negro Women?
A
Mary McLeod Bethune
B
Ida B. Wells
C
Dorothy Height
D
Ella Baker
15.
Who was the nine-year-old girl famously escorted by federal marshals to an all-white school in New Orleans in 1960?
A
Claudette Colvin
B
Linda Brown
C
Ruby Bridges
D
Elizabeth Eckford

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