Civil Rights - Modified

Who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus?

• Charlayne Hunter

• Harriet Tubman

• Rosa Parks

• Rebecca L. Felton

More than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally for jobs and freedom. Here, MLK gave his 'I Have a Dream' speech.

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Freedom Riders

• March on Washington

Separation of two or more races based on skin color

• segregation

• racism

• oppression

• facism

The use of peaceful means, not force, to bring about political or social change

• manipulation

• coercion

• nonviolence

• agression

What happened as a result of this boycott?

• Back Americans got equal rights.

• Segregation on public transport was ruled to be unconstitutional.

• Nothing happened, buses remained segregated.

• Black Americans were never allowed on buses again.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott was what kind of protest?

• Segregated

• Violent

• Revolutionary

• Peaceful

What were the activists of Selma campaigning for?

• Voting rights

• Immigration rights

• An end to segregation in public education

• The desegregation of public transportation

What kept black southerns from voting in 1965?

• Poll taxes

• Literacy tests

• The risk of being fired or physically harmed

• All of the above

What were the activists called who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 to challenge that segregated buses were unconstitutional?

• Civil liberty riders

• The black panthers

• Ride or die'rs

• Freedom riders

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