Our Virginia - pages 148-149

Before Rosa Parks in 1955, who was the Virginian, who in 1944, refused to move to the back of the bus when told to do so by a white driver?

• Barbara Johns

• Maggie Walker

• Irene Morgan

• Linwood Holton

What are Civil Rights?

• Full equality of people of all races i the use of public facilities and services.

• To legally end racial segregation

• The promise of personal liberty made to citizens by the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

• Unfair difference in the treatment of people

In the 1940's and 1950's in Virginia, blacks could not use the same facilities as whites. Select all that were part of these segregated laws.

• public parks

• waiting rooms

• homes

• beaches

Besides lobbying to end segregation in schools, Black Virginians also fought to end segregation in what areas? Select all that apply.

• Right to vote

• equal housing

• equal job opportunities

• Right to go to a party

What Civil Rights leader believed that the best way to change things was in peaceful, nonviolent ways?

• Oliver Hill

• Harry Byrd, Sr.

• Rosa Parks

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Virginians began to protest the unfair practices of "Jim Crow" laws. Which is an example of such a protest?

• shopping in the stores

• sit-ins at restaurants

• not voting

• separate schools

What was passed in 1964 that put an end to segregation in restaurants, public schools, and other places?

• Civil Rights Act

• Voting Rights Act

• Massive Resistance

• Southern Manifesto

At a Richmond Department store, black customers were not allowed to eat in the store's restaurant. Students from a nearby college decided to do a sit-in as a form of protest. Which college were the students from?

• Robert Russa Moton High School

• Prince Edward County Schools

• University of Richmond

• Virginia Union University

Students at a college in Richmond decided to protest a department store that would not allow black customers to eat in the store's restaurant. What happened to the students that refused to get up or leave the restaurant?

• Many were banned from the department store.

• They picketed the store.

• They were asked not to ever return.

• They were arrested.

Many African Americans across Virginia, followed Dr. King's call for passive resistance. What are some of the ways they protested peacefully?

• marches

• pickets

• sit-ins

• boycotts