Civil Rights Movement Quiz

Match the following

• 4 African American college students

• Arrested in Louisiana for riding in the whites only section of a train

• Homer Plessy

• Refused to move to the back of the bus and set in motion the Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Believed in fighting hate with love and gave the "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C.

• Rosa Parks

• Organized a march to the city courthouse to protest poor conditions in her school

• Barbara Johns

• Sat at a lunch counter and refused to leave until they were served

Ruby Bridges was a 6 year old girl who helped desegregate ______.

• buses

• lunch counters

• schools

• movie theaters

These laws were responsible for separate public services in almost every area of the South.

• Jim Crow
• Homer Plessy

• James Earl Ray

• Joanne Robinson

In what city were children knocked down with fire hoses and attacked by police dogs?

• Greensboro, North Carolina

• Montgomery, Alabama

• Memphis, Tennessee

• Birmingham, Alabama

Why did Phillip Randolph organize the March on Washington? (2 correct answers)

• To pressure Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act

• To bring segregation to the nation

• To show African Americans and whites standing together in peace

• To support "separate, but equal"

What happened in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968?

• Martin Luther King Jr was arrested

• Martin Luther King Jr was killed

• Martin Luther King Jr wrote a letter from jail

• Martin Luther King Jr gave his "I Have a Dream" speech