Fighting For Equality:

Quiz

1. Who was known as the Liberator.

A. Frederick Douglass

B. Sojourner Truth

C. William Lloyd

2. Was one of the most influential black Americans leaders of the 1950's and 1960's.

A. Alexander Crummell

B.Malcolm X

C. Medgar Evers

3. He won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations.

A. Nat Turner

B. Henry Highland Garnet

C. Martin Luther King Jr.

4. On what day was Megar Evers shot and killed outside his home in Jackson Mississippi.

A. September 23, 1967

B. June 12, 1963

C. August 4, 1954

5. What black woman refused to give up her seat to a white man in Montgomery Alabama.

A. Rosa Parks

B.Mary Ann Shadd

C. Sojourner Truth

6. Who was best remembered for a speech she gave at a women's rights conference.

A. Mary Church Terrell

B. Sojourner Truth

C. Mary Elizabeth Bowser

7. Harriet Tubman was born as a slave in what year.

A. 1967

B. 1854

C. 1821

8. What Civil Rights Act prohibited racial discrimination in public places and called for equal opportunity in employment and education.

A. Civil Rights Act of 1875

B. Civil Rights Act of 1756

C. Civil Rights Act of 1964

9. On September 15, 1963, how many people died in The Sixteenth Street Churth bombing.

A. 94

B. 7

C. 4

10. He was a black American civil rights activist, political leader, and Baptist minister.

A. MArshall Thurgood

B. Jesse Louis Jackson

C. Martin Luther King Jr.