Civil Rights Lesson 1

The best definition of boycott is:

• To stop supporting something such as a company, business, or product, as a protest to gain awareness and bring about change.

• To begin supporting something such as a company, business, or product, as a protest to gain awareness and bring about change.

• Something that boys slept on in army boot camps.

• To stop buying something to make people upset and change it.

The best definition of activists is:

• Someone who works hard to keep things the same politically or socially.

• Someone who works out a lot at the gym.

• Someone who works hard to make changes politically or socially.

• Someone who cares about animals and is on all of the humane society commercials.

The best definition of segregation is:

• People being separated for only skin color.

• People being separated randomly.

• People being separated because other people think they are better.

• The separation/isolation of a race, class, or ethnic group by enforced or voluntary barriers and rules using discriminatory means.

Check all the answers that are examples of segregation:

• Black people being forced to use different restaurants.

• Black people being forced to use different schools.

• Black people being forced to live in different areas.

Emmett Till was:

• A white boy who meant no harm that was killed from a misunderstanding by racist people.

• A black boy who meant no harm who was killed from a misunderstanding by racist people.

• A white boy who meant no harm that was jailed for a misunderstanding by racist people.

• A black boy who meant no harm that was jailed for a misunderstanding by racist people.

What was the Supreme Court Case Brown vs. Board of Education about and what did the results do?

• It did not allow black and white students to be in the same school together, changing the previous "separate but equal" laws.

• Black teachers did not think that they were getting paid enough compared to white teachers, so it made it equal.

• White teachers thought that black teachers were getting paid too much compared to them, so it made it equal.

• It allowed black and white students to be in the same school together, changing the previous "separate but equal" laws.

Why is Rosa Parks famous?

• She was the first black woman to be a bus driver in the 1960s.

• She was a white woman who refused to obey the segregation laws on a bus.

• She was a black woman who refused to obey the segregation laws on a bus.

• She was the first black woman to graduate from college in the US.

Who sang Strange Fruit in the video we watched?

• Billie Holiday

• Judy Garland

• Billie Eilish

• Julie Andrews

What was the song referring to as the "strange fruit"?

• Weird looking fruit on a tree that no one had seen before.

• Dead black people who had been hung from a tree.

• Dead white people who had been hung from a tree.

• Foreign fruit trees that are newly cultivated and have strange looking fruits.

Martin Luther King Jr. was:

• A white activist who spoke against discrimination against black people.

• A white activist who spoke against discrimination against white people.

• A black activist who spoke against discrimination against white people.

• A black activist who spoke against discrimination against black people.