Breaking Laws for Change

Civil disobedience meant protesters would break laws they thought were unjust in a __________________way in order to get them changed.

• violent

• loving

• peaceful

Civil rights movement leaders learned peaceful nonviolent protest methods at ________________________in Tennessee.

• The rockabilly folk school

• Gandhi's School of Peace

• Clinton High School

• The Highlander Folk School

Which two famous civil rights leaders attended the Highlander Folk School?

• Elvis Presley

• Martin Luther King Junior

• General Dwight Eisenhower

• Rosa Parks

MLK wanted to appeal to the nations conscious in order to wear down____________

• segregation

• crime

• peoples opinions

• schools

MLK followed the example that Gandhi set by using "______________________" and not hate.

• violence

• rioting

• the weapon of love

• the court

Rosa Parks was kicked off of a bus Montgomery, Alabama because she refused to give up _____________

• her ticket to a white man

• her seat to a white man

• her purse to a thief

When Rosa refused to give up her seat, this protest started a much larger one (Montgomery bus boycott). King called on black citizens to stop riding _________________.

• city buses

• in their cars

• on their bikes

• to work

Since Montgomery did not respond to the boycott, a lawsuit made its way through_________________

• Alabama

• the city

• the court system

• the bus system

The federal court ruled that Montgomery ___________________its buses.

• close down

• desegregate

• board up

• keep sending

Even though black citizens were allowed to vote in Tennessee, they were kept from voting because of the following:

• white store keepers refused to sell goods to black people

• Insurance companies canceled families' car and home insurance

• Some doctors refused to see patients who registered to vote

• Land owners evicted black sharecroppers because they registered to vote

• all of the above