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Civil Rights Heroes Quiz Test your knowledge about famous rights heroes. Carefully read each question, and circle the correct answer. 1. What group of students was famous for challenging school segregation in the deep South? a. The Little Rock Nine b. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) c. The Black Panthers 2. Who is the person responsible for launching the Birmingham bus boycott, one of the pivotal events of the civil-rights movement? a. Stokley Carmichael b. Rosa Parks c. Shirley Chisholm 3. Who was the lawyer who won the Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) , which made segregation in public schools illegal? a. Roy Wilkens b. Ralph Abernathy c. Thurgood Marshall 4. Woolworths Department stores in the South used to refuse to serve African Americans at their lunch counters. What was the name of the group of students who held the first sit-ins at Woolworths to protest the stores segregationist policies? a. The Greensboro b. The Scottsboro Boys c. The Little Rock Nine 5. Who was the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi? a. James Meredith

b. Jesse Jackson c. W.E.B. Dubois 6. Who was the 14-year-old black boy who was brutally murdered by white racists in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman? a. Emmett Till b. Crispus Attucks c. Dred Scott 7. Who became the first African- American player to break Major League baseballs unwritten rule against hiring blacks? a. Satchel Paige b. Jackie Robinson c. Willie Mays 8. Who were the Freedom Riders? a. Students groups who rode on buses throughout the South in order to integrate interstate transportation. b. This was a name for civil rights marchers. c. Members of the KKK who attack civil rights activists. 9. Who were the three young civil-rights workers who were murdered in Mississippi while working to register black voters? a. James E. Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwermer b. The Scottsboro Boys c. Edgar Ray Killen, James Earl Ray, and Byron De La Beckwith 10. The day before he was assassinated, what was Martin Luther King engaged in? a. He was in Montgomery supporting a bus boycott. b. He was in Memphis supporting black garbage collectors who were on strike c. He attended the March on Washington.