Civil Rights/Protest Movements

Which choice about Rosa Parks is true?

• refused to give up her bus seat because it had been a long day at work and she was tired

• spent a long time in jail for refusing to give up her bus seat.

• was never allowed on a bus in Montgomery again.

• had been carefully selected by members of the NAACP to spark the need for a bus boycott in Montgomery.

Four black college students attending North Carolina AT&T State University changed the course of NC history by

• refusing to give up their seats on a bus and encouraging other black students to do the same.

• refusing to move from a lunch counter when they did not receive service.

• leaving the lunch counter when they did not receive service.

• beginning a riot that spread quickly to other states.

High school students joined in the the Civil Rights activities across the South like the Childrens March and Freedom Rides because

• schools released students to join the protests.

• they would not be arrested by the local authorities.

• they did not have jobs or houses that could be threatened.

• they believed less strongly in the cause of the Civil Rights Movement than most adults.

Many Civil Rights Movement leaders focused on nonviolent civil disobedience. Which of the following would be an event these leaders would not support?

• Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” Speech

• The Selma March

• Watt’s Riot in Los Angeles

• Freedom Rides

Which of the following motto's would best represent Malcolm X’s approach to civil rights and equality?

• “Violence over Peace”

• “Any Means Necessary”

• “Weapons of Love”

• “Always Fight Back”

When necessary to achieve justice, Martin Luther King, Jr., urged his followers to

• use violence to bring about political change

• leave any community in which racism is evident

• demand Congress pay reparations

• engage in civil disobedience

Which method of opposing a political or business policy is most like the approach used by Martin Luther King Jr.?

• war protester accepting a jail term

• An African-American man moving to Africa

• a union picketer assaulting a strikebreaker

• dissatisfied workers destroying machinery

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was an effort to correct

• unfair immigration quotas

• Racial and gender discrimination

• Trade deficits

• segregation in the military

What was the result of the Brown vs. Board of Education case?

• Special public schools were set up for African American students

• African American kids were prevented from attending the same schools as white kids

• The entire nation was desegregated

• African American kids were allowed to attend the same schools as white kids

What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do right after the arrest of Rosa Parks?

• He went on a pilgrimage to Mecca.

• He organized a march on Washington, DC.

• He delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.

• He organized a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.