
The Civil Rights Movement
Quiz by Paul Bachman
Grade 9-12
Social Studies
California Public Schools Standards
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- Q1leader of SNCC who believed in black powerRosa ParksFannie Lou HamerStokely CarmichaelHuey P. Newton30s
- Q2student who was denied admission to her neighborhood schoolElla BakerLinda BrownDr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Thurgood Marshall30s
- Q3arrested for refusing to give up a seat on a bus to a white manLinda BrownRosa ParksFannie Lou HamerRobert Moses30s
- Q4became a symbol of the black power movementMalcolm XDr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Thurgood MarshallElla Baker30s
- Q5minister whose vision and nonviolent methods helped the civil rights movement transform American societyLinda BrownDr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Malcolm XRobert Moses30s
- Q6helped organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic PartyFannie Lou HamerRosa ParksMalcolm XLinda Brown30s
- Q7urged the NAACP to start helping rural Southern African AmericansElla BakerRobert MosesDr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Stokely Carmichael30s
- Q8along with Bobby Seale, organized the Black PanthersThurgood MarshallHuey P. NewtonLinda BrownRobert Moses30s
- Q9NAACP’s chief counselStokely CarmichaelThurgood MarshallLinda BrownDr. Martin Luther King, Jr.30s
- Q10executive director of the SCLCElla BakerRosa ParksLinda BrownMalcolm X30s
- Q11Members of CORE used _______________ , a form of protest first used by union workers in the 1930s, to desegregate restaurants.lock-outsbus boycottsfreedom marchessit-ins30s
- Q12The “Southern Manifesto” encouraged white Southerners toobey local law enforcementdefy the Supreme Courtembrace desegregation.march against civil rights30s
- Q13Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., believed the way to end segregation was througheconomic self-improvementriots and vandalismseparation from white societynonviolent passive resistance.30s
- Q14In Little Rock, Arkansas, the governor tried to prevent African American students from entering a white high school bydeploying the National Guardclosing the schoolhiring the Ku Klux Klanredrawing the school district30s
- Q15The Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first civil rights law since Reconstruction, was intended toend discrimination in hiringend lynchingprotect the right of African Americans to voteprotect the right of African Americans to attend desegregated schools30s