Who is known as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement” for her role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
a) Rosa Parks
b) Coretta Scott King
c) Fannie Lou Hamer
d) Ella Baker
Answer: a) Rosa Parks
Who founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and advocated for nonviolent protest strategies?
a) Malcolm X
b) Huey P. Newton
c) Martin Luther King Jr.
d) Marcus Garvey
Answer: c) Martin Luther King Jr.
Ella Baker was a prominent activist and organizer. She played a crucial role in the formation of which organization?
a) Black Panther Party
b) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
c) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
d) Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Answer: b) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Who was a founder of the Black Panther Party and advocated for the rights of African Americans through revolutionary means?
a) Malcolm X
b) Martin Luther King Jr.
c) Rosa Parks
d) Ella Baker
Answer: a) Malcolm X
Which civil rights activist founded the United Farm Workers union and organized for the rights of agricultural workers?
a) Malcolm X
b) Dolores Huerta
c) Ella Baker
d) Rosa Parks
Answer: b) Dolores Huerta
Bayard Rustin was an important organizer who played a key role in organizing which major event of the Civil Rights Movement?
a) Montgomery Bus Boycott
b) March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
c) Selma to Montgomery marches
d) Little Rock Nine integration
Answer: b) March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Who was a civil rights activist and labor organizer, co-founding the National Farm Workers Association (later the United Farm Workers)?
a) Malcolm X
b) Martin Luther King Jr.
c) Dolores Huerta
d) Rosa Parks
Answer: c) Dolores Huerta
Septima Poinsette Clark was a teacher and civil rights activist known for her work in promoting:
a) Women’s suffrage
b) LGBTQ+ rights
c) Voting rights and education for African Americans
d) Labor rights
Answer: c) Voting rights and education for African Americans
Diane Nash was a key organizer and leader in the Civil Rights Movement, particularly focusing on which area of activism?
a) Labor rights
b) LGBTQ+ rights
c) Voter registration and desegregation of public facilities
d) Environmental justice
Answer: c) Voter registration and desegregation of public facilities
Who was a civil rights activist and labor organizer, co-founding the American Farm Workers union to advocate for better conditions for migrant workers?
a) Malcolm X
b) Martin Luther King Jr.
c) Dolores Huerta
d) Cesar Chavez
Answer: d) Cesar Chavez
Claudette Colvin is known for her role as one of the first African American women to refuse to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, prior to Rosa Parks. Which incident did she trigger?
a) Greensboro sit-ins
b) Little Rock Nine integration
c) Montgomery Bus Boycott
d) Freedom Rides
Answer: c) Montgomery Bus Boycott
Who was an influential LGBTQ+ civil rights activist and a leader in the fight for gay and transgender rights?
a) Audre Lorde
b) Harvey Milk
c) Bayard Rustin
d) Gloria Steinem
Answer: b) Harvey Milk
Fannie Lou Hamer was a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement and a co-founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. What was her primary focus?
a) Labor rights
b) Women’s suffrage
c) Voting rights and racial equality
d) LGBTQ+ rights
Answer: c) Voting rights and racial equality
Who was a prominent African American journalist, educator, and civil rights activist, known for her anti-lynching campaign?
a) Ida B. Wells
b) Fannie Lou Hamer
c) Angela Davis
d) Coretta Scott King
Answer: a) Ida B. Wells
Ruby Bridges, at the age of six, was the first African American child to desegregate an all-white elementary school in the South. Which school did she integrate?
a) Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas
b) University of Mississippi
c) William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana
d) Topeka High School in Kansas
Answer: c) William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana
Which LGBTQ+ activist and transgender woman of color played a significant role in the Stonewall Riots, a pivotal event in the gay rights movement?
a) Harvey Milk
b) Marsha P. Johnson
c) Bayard Rustin
d) Audre Lorde
Answer: b) Marsha P. Johnson
What civil rights activist was a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and a key organizer of the Freedom Rides?
a) John Lewis
b) Malcolm X
c) Huey P. Newton
d) Cesar Chavez
Answer: a) John Lewis
Who was a transgender activist and advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, known for her involvement in the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot and her work in the transgender community?
a) Harvey Milk
b) Audre Lorde
c) Marsha P. Johnson
d) Bayard Rustin
Answer: c) Marsha P. Johnson
What civil rights organizer was the primary organizer behind the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?
a) Rosa Parks
b) Martin Luther King Jr.
c) Malcolm X
d) Bayard Rustin
Answer: d) Bayard Rustin
Who was a key organizer of the Chicano Movement, advocating for Mexican American civil rights and labor rights?
a) Dolores Huerta
b) Cesar Chavez
c) Malcolm X
d) Huey P. Newton
Answer: b) Cesar Chavez
What civil rights activist and labor leader co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later merged with the United Farm Workers?
a) Dolores Huerta
b) Malcolm X
c) Rosa Parks
d) Cesar Chavez
Answer: a) Dolores Huerta
Who was a lesbian feminist, poet, and civil rights activist known for her contributions to Black feminism and intersectional activism?
a) Angela Davis
b) Audre Lorde
c) Fannie Lou Hamer
d) Ida B. Wells
Answer: b) Audre Lorde
Stokely Carmichael (later Kwame Ture) was a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement and a leader of which organization?
a) Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
b) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
c) Black Panther Party
d) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Answer: b) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Who was a civil rights leader and organizer, known for his role as a mentor to Martin Luther King Jr. and his advocacy for nonviolent protest?
a) Rosa Parks
b) Bayard Rustin
c) Ella Baker
d) Howard Thurman
Answer: d) Howard Thurman
Annie Lee Cooper was a civil rights activist known for her role in the Selma voting rights movement. What action of civil disobedience did she famously take?
a) She organized the Greensboro sit-ins
b) She was the lead plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education
c) She attempted to register to vote and was met with violence by law enforcement
d) She led the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Answer: c) She attempted to register to vote and was met with violence by law enforcement
Who was a civil rights activist and leader in the Nation of Islam, advocating for the empowerment of African Americans and Black pride?
a) Malcolm X
b) Huey P. Newton
c) Bayard Rustin
d) Martin Luther King Jr.
Answer: a) Malcolm X
James Farmer was a civil rights activist and a co-founder of which organization that aimed to combat racial segregation through nonviolent direct action?
a) Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
b) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
c) Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
d) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Answer: c) Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Who was a civil rights organizer and advocate for women’s rights, known for her speech “Ain’t I a Woman?” at the 1851 Women’s Rights Convention?
a) Rosa Parks
b) Angela Davis
c) Sojourner Truth
d) Coretta Scott King
Answer: c) Sojourner Truth
What civil rights activist was a leader of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and advocated for the rights and sovereignty of Native Americans?
a) Dennis Banks
b) Malcolm X
c) Bayard Rustin
d) Dolores Huerta
Answer: a) Dennis Banks
Who was a prominent civil rights activist, leader of the Nation of Islam, and advocate for the empowerment of Black Americans?
a) Malcolm X
b) Huey P. Newton
c) Bayard Rustin
d) Martin Luther King Jr.
Answer: a) Malcolm X
Gloria Richardson was a civil rights activist and leader in the Cambridge Movement, advocating for racial equality and economic justice. In which state did this movement take place?
a) Mississippi
b) Maryland
c) Alabama
d) Louisiana
Answer: b) Maryland
Who was a civil rights leader, founder of the National Urban League, and advocate for racial and economic equality for African Americans?
a) W. E. B. Du Bois
b) Thurgood Marshall
c) A. Philip Randolph
d) Frederick Douglass
Answer: a) W. E. B. Du Bois
What civil rights activist and labor leader organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a union that fought for the rights of African American railroad workers?
a) Cesar Chavez
b) A. Philip Randolph
c) Bayard Rustin
d) John Lewis
Answer: b) A. Philip Randolph
Who was a key organizer of the Freedom Summer campaign, which aimed to register African American voters in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement?
a) Malcolm X
b) Huey P. Newton
c) Fannie Lou Hamer
d) Bayard Rustin
Answer: c) Fannie Lou Hamer
Fred Hampton was a civil rights activist and leader in the Black Panther Party. He focused on issues of:
a) LGBTQ+ rights
b) Women’s suffrage
c) Labor rights
d) Racial and economic equality
Answer: d) Racial and economic equality
Who was a civil rights leader and educator, serving as the principal of the all-Black Moton High School and playing a key role in the Brown v. Board of Education case?
a) Malcolm X
b) Huey P. Newton
c) Bayard Rustin
d) Barbara Johns
Answer: d) Barbara Johns
What civil rights activist and journalist founded The Crisis magazine and co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
a) W. E. B. Du Bois
b) Thurgood Marshall
c) A. Philip Randolph
d) Frederick Douglass
Answer: a) W. E. B. Du Bois
Who was a civil rights activist and leader of the Deacons for Defense and Justice, an armed self-defense organization that protected African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement?
a) Malcolm X
b) Huey P. Newton
c) Bayard Rustin
d) Robert F. Williams
Answer: d) Robert F. Williams
Dorothy Height was a civil rights and women’s rights activist, serving as the president of which organization that focused on racial and gender equality?
a) National Organization for Women (NOW)
b) National Urban League
c) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
d) YWCA
Answer: b) National Urban League
Who was a Native American civil rights activist and co-founder of the American Indian Movement (AIM), advocating for the rights and sovereignty of Indigenous peoples?
a) Dennis Banks
b) Malcolm X
c) Bayard Rustin
d) Dolores Huerta
Answer: a) Dennis Banks
Claudette Colvin is known for her role as one of the first African American women to refuse to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, prior to Rosa Parks. Which incident did she trigger?
a) Greensboro sit-ins
b) Little Rock Nine integration
c) Montgomery Bus Boycott
d) Freedom Rides
Answer: c) Montgomery Bus Boycott
Who was an influential LGBTQ+ civil rights activist and a leader in the fight for gay and transgender rights?
a) Harvey Milk
b) Marsha P. Johnson
c) Bayard Rustin
d) Audre Lorde
Answer: b) Marsha P. Johnson
Fannie Lou Hamer was a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement and a co-founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. What was her primary focus?
a) Labor rights
b) Women’s suffrage
c) Voting rights and racial equality
d) LGBTQ+ rights
Answer: c) Voting rights and racial equality
Who was a prominent African American journalist, educator, and civil rights activist, known for her anti-lynching campaign?
a) Ida B. Wells
b) Fannie Lou Hamer
c) Angela Davis
d) Coretta Scott King
Answer: a) Ida B. Wells
Ruby Bridges, at the age of six, was the first African American child to desegregate an all-white elementary school in the South. Which school did she integrate?
a) Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas
b) University of Mississippi
c) William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana
d) Topeka High School in Kansas
Answer: c) William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana
Which LGBTQ+ activist and transgender woman of color played a significant role in the Stonewall Riots, a pivotal event in the gay rights movement?
a) Harvey Milk
b) Marsha P. Johnson
c) Bayard Rustin
d) Audre Lorde
Answer: b) Marsha P. Johnson
What civil rights activist was a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and a key organizer of the Freedom Rides?
a) John Lewis
b) Malcolm X
c) Huey P. Newton
d) Cesar Chavez
Answer: a) John Lewis
Who was a transgender activist and advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, known for her involvement in the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot and her work in the transgender community?
a) Harvey Milk
b) Audre Lorde
c) Marsha P. Johnson
d) Bayard Rustin
Answer: c) Marsha P. Johnson
What civil rights activist was a leader of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and advocated for the rights and sovereignty of Native Americans?
a) Dennis Banks
b) Malcolm X
c) Bayard Rustin
d) Dolores Huerta
Answer: a) Dennis Banks
Who was a key organizer of the Freedom Summer campaign, which aimed to register African American voters in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement?
a) Malcolm X
b) Huey P. Newton
c) Fannie Lou Hamer
d) Bayard Rustin
Answer: c) Fannie Lou Hamer
