Civil Rights Movement

What halted the entrance of the Little Rock Nine into Central High School?

• Governor Orval Faubus sent National Guard troops to prevent them from entering the school

• Angry crowds protesting integration

• President Eisenhower sent National Guard troops to prevent them from entering

• A non-violent sit-in organized by white protestors

A sit-in

• is a protest against bus segregation led by Rosa Parks

• is a voter registration drive organized by SNCC

• is a type of nonviolent demonstration where protesters sit down and refuse to leave

• is a code word for an uprising

The NAACP argued that "separate but equal"

• did not truly provide an equal education for black students

• was unfair to both black and white students

• was an acceptable form of segregation

• only applied in the South

What sparked the Montgomery bus boycott?

• A speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.

• the arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger

• Voter registration drives organized by SNCC

• The Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education

In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled

• segregation in public schools was unconstitutional

• segregation in public schools was ok as long as facilities were equal

• violent protests are a constitutional right

• sit-ins are the best form of protest

The Montgomery Bus Boycott ended

• when black citizens got tired of walking and car pooling, and decided to continue to ride the buses

• when the Montgomery bus system agreed to demands because they were losing money

• when the Supreme Court ruled segregation on public transportation was illegal

• after negotiations with Martin Luther King, Jr.

What was the goal of the Freedom Rides?

• to allow African Americans and whites to spend time together and get to know each other

• to show whites that African Americans were not afraid of violent attacks

• to convince President Kennedy to enforce the court's ruling against segregation in bus stations

• to encourage the Montgomery Bus Boycott

What were volunteers trying to do during Freedom Summer?

• protest segregation in bus stations and public restaurants

• educate white Americans about racial injustice

• integrate all public schools

• help southern African Americans register to vote

Who was Stokely Carmichael?

• founder of the American Indian Movement

• founder of the Civil Rights Movement

• founder of the Black Power Movement

• founder of the United Farm Workers

Where did Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his famous "I Have a Dream" speech?

• at the voting rights march in Selma, Alabama

• while in a jail cell in Birmingham

• at the March on Washington

• at a bus station in Alabama