Civil Rights Movement Quiz

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