Test--AA History--Unit 7

What African American student was the first to integrate the University of Mississippi?

• Ruby Bridges

• Rosa Parks

• James Meredith

• Jessica Brown

What legislation banned discrimination in places of public accommodations?

• Equal Employment Opportunity Act

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Civil Rights Act of 1957

Riots in black ghettos stopped when African Americans realized that...?

• Effective to force positive change

• Destruction hurt blacks more than whites

• Riots would lead to new construction

• Led to more jobs for black community

What recognition did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. receive in 1964 for his efforts for civil rights?

• Presidential Citation

• Nobel Peace Prize

• Chamber of Commerce award

• Congressional Gold Medal

Which is considered the real woman behind the idea of the Montgomery bus boycott?

• Rosa Parks

• Ella Baker

• Fannie Lou Hamer

• Jo Ann Robinson

In 1960, what new type of civil rights protest was led by college students in Greensboro, North Carolina?

• Freedom Rides

• Ghetto Riots

• Sit-In

• Civil Rights March

What was the Black nationalist slogan started by Stokley Carmichael after SNCC completed the march started by James Meredith in Mississippi?

• Burn Baby Burn

• Black Power

• Kill the Pigs

• Power to the People

What action led to the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955?

• NAACP warned the bus company

• Four girls were killed in a black church bombing

• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. threatened a strike

• Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man

What national event was an effort to pressure Congress into passing President Kennedy’s civil rights legislation?

• Led White House Sit-In

• National Bus Boycott

• Ghetto Riots

• The March on Washington

The day in 1965 when a planned march of 600 protesters to the state capital in Montgomery, Alabama was violently stopped on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is known today as...?

• Day of Reckoning

• Selma Attack

• Bloody Sunday

• Pettus Bridge Compromise