Selma Movie Test

In what state was Selma?

• Mississippi
• Georgia
• Alabama
• Texas

Who was president during the Selma march?

• Johnson
• Kennedy
• Eisenhower
• Carter

What eventual law was proposed mostly as a result of the Selma movement?

• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Voting Rights Act of 1965

The major topic of the Selma march was which of the following?

• lunch counters
• popular sovereignty
• desegregation
• voting

The marchers planned to go from Selma to ________.

• Jackson, Mississippi
• Atlanta, Georgia
• Montgomery, Alabama
• Raleigh, North Carolina

What happened to the first march?

• The sheriff allowed the marchers to cross the bridge and leave Selma.
• The march was canceled because of a storm.
• The sheriff and his posse beat the marchers and stopped them from leaving Selma
• The sheriff tried to stop the marchers but didn’t arrive in time to do so.

Why was Montgomery chosen as the destination for the march?

• It's the state capital

• It's where the bus boycott ended

• It's the birthplace of Martin Luther King

• It's the only place where African Americans couldn't vote

Who was the student leader of the first Selma to Montgomery march?

• Martin Luther King

• Rosa Parks

• John Lewis

• Malcolm X

What tragic event seemed to provide the spark for African American Civil Rights leaders to plan the famous "March to Selma?"

• The shooting of Jimmie Lee Jackson by Alabama State Trooper

• The shooting of Governor George Wallace

• The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

• The members of the Ku Klux Klan disrupted Martin Luther King's speech at the Lincoln Memorial.

What happened in Selma after the "Bloody Sunday" March was beaten back by the Alabama State Troopers on March 7, 1965?

• The protesters decided to wait another month to regroup and march again

• The protesters regrouped and decided to take the side of violence over nonviolence

• The protesters regrouped and marched to the hospital Jimmie Lee Jackson died instead

• The protesters regrouped and tried to march the same route again, despite the threats of violence