AAH Unit 7--7A: The Freedom Movement Pt 1

What action did whites take to prevent school segregation after the Brown decision?

• Bombed the Governor's Office

• White Citizen's Council

• Built new schools for African Americans

Name the black boy from Chicago who was lynched in Mississippi?

• Tamir Rice

• George Floyd

• Emmett Till

• Michael Brown

Who first came up with the idea for a bus boycott in Montgomery Alabama?

• Jo Ann Robinson

• Rosa Parks

• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The nine black students who integrated all-white Central High School in Little Rock, AR are known as the...?

• Divine Nine

• Little Rock Nine

• The Fine Nine

Who called Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “the most dangerous man in America”?

• President Lyndon B. Johnson

• Malcolm X

• FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover

What African American student integrated the University of Mississippi?

• James Meredith

• Ruby Bridges

• Angela Davis

What action precipitated the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• Killing of Emmett Till in Mississippi

• Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white person

• Buses refused to pick up black passengers

Who was selected to lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• Jo Ann Robinson

• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

• Rosa Parks

How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last, and how did it end?

• 381 Days...Supreme Court decision

• 365 Days...State officials changed rules to save the buses

• Less than 1 year--The Bus company changed the rules

What is considered the reason for the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• Buses were losing too much money

• Community-wide African American support

• A liberal Supreme Court system