Civil Rights

College students used _____ to protest against segregation in diners and at lunch counters.

• sit-ins

• freedom rides

• speeches

• death threats

Segregation is ...

• separate facilities for minority groups

• racial segregation separated african americans and whites

• separate but equal, were usually not equal

• all of the above

Integration is ...

• desegregation (opposite of segregation)

• creating equal opportunities

• combining african americans and whites

• all of the above

Protesters rode buses to protest segregation in train/bus stations, the bus trips were called:

• segregation

• freedom rides

• boycott

• integration rides

What was the cause of Jim Crow laws being created?

• Black Codes

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

Which president is responsible for desegregating the armed forces?

• Roosevelt

• Truman

• Kennedy

• Johnson

What caused the abuses of Jim Crow laws to be known by everyone?

• the bus boycott

• the march on Washington

• television

• radio

Name the civil rights leader arrested for protesting bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Sojourner Truth

• Rosa Parks

• Malcolm X

Name the civil rights leader who was Islamic and believed white Americans would never support equal rights.

• Malcolm X

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Rosa Parks

• Booker T. Washington

Name the civil rights leader who was a minister and believed in peaceful protest.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Booker T. Washington

• Malcolm X

• Rosa Parks