4th Grade Alabama History Week 22

The "Jim Crow" laws required that all public facilities be integrated.

• True

• False

The NAACP held a meeting in Montgomery in 1947 to recruit people to dedicate themselves to the fight for civil rights.

• True

• False

The Montgomery Bus Company accepted integration when the president said they had too.

• True

• False

Rosa Parks started a "revolution" when she refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white person.

• True

• False

E. D. Nixon was an American civil rights leader who is remembered by many as the "Father of the civil Rights Movement".

• True

• False

Johnnie Carr was

• a friend of Rosa Parks

• worked with Dr. martin Luther King Jr.

• served as Montgomery Improvement Association president for many years.

• all of the above

E. D. Nixon

• never met Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

• served as president of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP and helped Rosa Parks get out of jail

• served as governor of Alabama

Virginia and Clifford Durr

• were African Americans

• helped get Rosa Parks out of jail and were active in the civil rights movement

• both served as NAACP presidents

George Wallace

• served as governor of Alabama and believed in integration.

• apologized later in life for his segregationist beliefs.

• was mayor of Montgomery.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

• still lives in Montgomery

• helped change our country's laws, giving equal rights to all races and won the Nobel Peace Prize.

• did not believe in equal rights for all people