Civil rights 1941-1970 test questions - Eduqas

1

Approximately, how many black Americans were serving in the US armed forces by the end of World War Two?

2

Which US president signed Executive Order 9981, which ordered the US armed forces to desegregate?

3

In which year did the Supreme Court announce its judgement in the Brown v Topeka case?

4

Which member of the Little Rock Nine is pictured in a famous photograph being shouted at by white racists?

5

What was the name of the 1956 Supreme Court case about discrimination on buses in Alabama?

6

In the 1960s, Dr Martin Luther King Jr wrote a letter from jail after he had been arrested. Which march was this after?

7

Roughly how many people attended the March on Washington in 1963?

8

Which of these organisations was Malcolm X a member of?

9

At which televised event did Tommie Smith and John Carlos make the Black Power salute?

10

Which of these civil rights laws was passed after the events of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama?