The Civil Rights Movement ➤ Challenging Segregation

What do the letters SNCC stand for?

• Southern Negro Constitutional Committee

• Special Negro Congressional Committee

• Southern Natives Coordinating Commission

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

What were the teams of African American and white students who rode interstate busses to the south to draw attention to segregated bus terminals known as?

• Rabblerousers

• Freedom Riders

• Champions of Integration

• Anti-Klansmen

What organization did Fannie Lou Hamer help found that challenged the legality of Mississippi’s segregated Democrat Party?

• Equal Voting Rights Democratic Party

• Mississippi Integrated Democratic Party

• Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

• United Mississippi Democratic Party

Why was Fannie Lou Hamer evicted from her farm?

• She had lost her job and could not make her mortgage payments

• She registered to vote

• She failed to produce the number of crops required by her landlord

• She was arrested

By how many votes did JFK win in the state of Illinois in the 1960 election?

• 9,000

• 90,000

• 900,000

• 9,000,000

Who was the Public Safety Commissioner in Birmingham who coordinated with the Ku Klux Klan to have the students rising on the buses beaten?

• George Wallace

• Strom Thurmond

• Bull Connor

• James Eastland

Who was the Attorney General under JFK who used the Justice Department to actively support the civil rights movement?

• Thurgood Marshall

• Robert Kennedy

• Marion Barry

• Robert Moses

What government agency did JFK use to tighten regulations on interstate bus terminals to end segregation?

• Justice Department

• Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

• Interstate Commerce Commission

• Department of Homeland Security

Who was the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi?

• James Meredith

• Medgar Evers

• John Lewis

• Ralph Bunche

Who said, “I draw a line in the dust... and I say, Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!”

• Orval Faubus

• George Wallace

• Bull Connor

• Harry Byrd