Civil Rights after studying Selma

Open Ended

Name your person & tell how they in a big or small way contributed to this protest. How did your “ordinary” person contributed to the movement?

Poll

People of the world will always struggle for justice.

• Strongly Agree

• Agree

• Disagree

• Strongly Disagree

Open Ended

Name all the struggles people had in trying to vote before Selma.

Multiple Choice

Which method proved to be most effective in expanding the right to vote?

• Exchanges between authority & activists like sit-ins

• Personal approaches called grassroots efforts

• Large protests

Open Ended

Name a person who attempted to vote or tried to register others & describe their experience.

Open Ended

Why do you think people were willing to risk their lives to vote?

Multiple Choice

Which statement is NOT true: The Edmund Pettus Bridge Demonstration was successful.

• True

• False

• Not immediately (not one person registered that day) but..

• The media coverage changed peoples' hearts & minds

Open Ended

What lessons can be learned from the organizing in Selma that you can apply to struggles for justice today in your own school, community, the country, or the world?