1. Name: _____________________________________________
Period: _______________ Date: ____________________
Match the following people and what they did by circling the correct answer.
1. Rosa Parks (c)
a. b. c. d. e.
2. Governor Orval Faubes (b)
a. b. c. d. e.
3. Martin Luther King, Jr. (e)
a. b. c. d. e.
4. Thurgood Marshall (a)
a. b. c. d. e.
5. Jackie Robinson (d)
a. b. c. d. e.
a. African American lawyer in
the Brown vs. Board of
Education case
b. Declared that he couldn’t keep
order if integration occurred
in Little Rock.
c. Refused to give up a seat on
the bus.
d. First African American to
break the color line in
baseball.
e. Baptist minister and
spokesperson for the protest
movement
Identify each of the following statements about the NAACP by circling true or false.
6. True False
The NAACP stands for National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People.
7. True False
The NAACP focused on keeping segregation in the schools.
8. True False
The NAACP provided legal representation and aid to its members.
9. True False
The NAACP organized nonviolent protests.
10. Which of the following statements correctly describes the court case Brown
vs Board of Education?
a. Change happened immediately.
b. Thurgood Marshall refused to take the case.
c. The case reached the Supreme Court.
d. The case did not last long.
11. Which of the following statements correctly describes the reaction President
Eisenhower had to the Little Rock crisis?

2. a. President Eisenhower continued to ignore the issue of segregation.
b. Governor Faubes’s actions were a direct challenge to the
constitution and the President’s authority.
c. The National Guard was kept under Arkansas control.
12. Which of the following statements does NOT correctly describe the
Montgomery Bus Boycott?
a. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on the bus.
b. The Supreme Court ruled bus segregation unconstitutional.
c. It produced a new generation of rulers.
d. The boycott only lasted a few months
13. Essay Question:
How did the Civil Rights Movement bring Martin Luther King, Jr. into the public’s
eye?
• Became a major figure in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
• MLK decided the time had come to take a stand.
• MLK had a desire to maintain the success of nonviolent protests.
• MLK realized that the power of peaceful resistance was stronger than
violence.
• MLK became a symbol for the nonviolent protests by serving jail time instead
of paying fines.
• MLK help students and other groups form their own version of nonviolent
protests (such as sit-ins and freedom rides)
Essay Grading Rubric
Full Credit Partial Credit No credit
-Answered the
answer in full.
-Provided at least 4
points talked about
in class.
-Correct grammar
and punctuation.
-Answered
partially.
-Provided only 2
points talked about
in class.
-Few mistakes in
grammar and
punctuation.
-Refused to
answer.