Civil Rights Movement (8Black)

What state's National Guard escorted the Little Rock Nine to school?

• Mississippi

• Arkansas

• Alabama

• Kentucky

How many children were originally part of the group that integrated the schools in Little Rock?

• 80

• 9

• 10

• 32

In what year did the Little Rock students integrate the schools?

• 1956

• 1958

• 1961

• 1957

What did the crowd shout as one girl tried to make her way to school?

• Lynch her! Lynch her!

• Go back to where you came from!

• Kill her! Kill her!

• Go home!

In what year did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat to a white man?

• 1954

• 1955

• 1956

• 1953

In what city did the bus boycott occur?

• Montgomery, Alabama

• Jackson, Mississippi

• Selma, Alabama

• Nashville, Tennessee

How long did the bus boycott last?

• 7 months

• 12 months

• 13 months

• 18 months

Who became the leader of the bus boycott and eventually the leader of the Civil Rights Movement?

• Richard Nixon

• Malcolm X

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

What was the name of the 1896 Supreme Court case that said whites and blacks could legally be segregated?

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Miranda v. Arizona

• KKK v. Mississippi

What was the ruling in the Brown v. Board of Education case?

• Business were no longer allowed to separate whites and blacks.

• Schools were no longer allowed to segregate.

• Blacks and whites could legally marry.

• Busses could no longer make blacks sit in the back.