Non-Violent Protest and The Civil Rights Movement

The definition of Institutional Racism is:

• Any system (government, teams) where there is inequality based off of race.
• Not allowing racism to happen in systems like offices or the government.
• Segregating only African Americans.
• This definition does not exist.

During the Montgomery City Boycott (of Rosa Parks fame), African Americans and their allies walked instead of:

• Driving to their job each day.
• Paying for a taxi each day to work.
• Riding the local buses to work each day.
• There was no boycott.

Ella Baker created SNCC, which stands for:

• Students Not Caring Committee.
• Students for Non-Violence Committee.
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
• Students Noticing Caustic Concerns.

The SCLC, created in part by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stands for:

• Student Christian Leadership Conference.
• Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
• Students Caring for Leadership Conference.
• Southern California Leadership Conference.

The freedom rides

• Consisted of whites and blacks protesting together.
• Consisted of whites only.
• Consisted of blacks only.
• Never existed.

The year in which President Kennedy was assassinated, the violent Freedom Summer, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech and the Selma march led by John Lewis:

• 1982
• 1968
• 1963
• 1965

Non-violence is tactic used to:

• Create empathy for those who do not understand the pain they inflict.
• Create mass hysteria.
• To cause a riot.
• To take risks.

Why did King feel it was essential to go to Birmingham and spread his message of non-violence?

• Because he wanted to hold a peaceful protest, and not have the public create stereotypes off of violent behavior.

• Because he did not agree with acts of violence.

Miscegenation laws meant:

• No one could vote without passing a literacy test.

• That individuals were still segregated because of race.

• That individuals of different ethnicities could not marry one another.

• This did not occur in The Civil Rights Era

Loving v. Virginia ended:

• miscegenation laws.

• voting rights violations.

• civil rights violations.

• not a Supreme Court case.