Rosa Parks

What event on December 1, 1955, sparked the civil rights movement?

• Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus

• The establishment of the NAACP

• Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech

• The signing of the Civil Rights Act

What was Rosa Parks arrested for?

• Civil misconduct

• Theft

• Disturbing the peace

• Trespassing

What laws made it illegal for black people to attend the same schools or eat at the same restaurants as whites?

• Integration laws

• Equality laws

• Segregation laws

• Civil Rights Laws

Which incident is mentioned as perhaps the most shocking involving race-motivated violence?

• The brutal murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till

• The Birmingham church bombing

• The murder of Malcolm X

• The arrest of Martin Luther King Jr.

Who documented the events leading to Rosa Parks's momentous bus ride in a poem?

• Audre Lorde

• Maya Angelou

• Langston Hughes

• Nikki Giovanni