💻 Unit 8 Civil Rights Notes pt.2

Multiple Choice

In Montgomery, Alabama, where were African Americans required to sit on buses?

• In the middle rows

• Anywhere they chose

• In the front rows

• In the back rows

Multiple Choice

What action did Rosa Parks take that sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• She organized a protest march.

• She wrote a letter to the mayor.

• She refused to give up her seat on a bus.

• She led a sit-in at a restaurant.

Multiple Choice

What was the duration of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• More than a year

• 
  A few weeks

• 
  Several months

• 
  

  Two years

Multiple Choice

What was the significance of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• It ended segregation in all public places.

• It led to the desegregation of public transit.

• It resulted in the arrest of all civil rights leaders.

• It was the first protest against segregation.

Match

Match the following person with the event they spearheaded...

• Rosa Parks

• Little Rock Nine

• Herman Sweatt

• Jackie Robinson

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Integration in Little Rock H.S.

Black law student who challenged UT LAW

first African-American baseball player to cross the "color line" and join MLB

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Integration in Little Rock H.S.

• Black law student who challenged UT LAW

• first African-American baseball player to cross the "color line" and join MLB

Multiple Choice

The Freedom Riders were a group of African Americans and Whites who rode buses to..?

• Encourage A.A.'s to leave the south and move north

• to protest racial segregation throughout the south

• to promote membership in the KKK

• to gain support for the Vietnam war

Multiple Choice

Arkansas Democratic Governor who became the national symbol of racial segregation when he used Arkansas National Guard to block the integration of Little Rock High School.

• Billy Graham
• Orval Faubus
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Jim Crow