Checkpoint 32: TN Contributes to the Civil Rights Movement

Who was training at the Highlander Folk School before refusing to give up a seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama?

• Malcolm X

• Emmett Till

• Ruby Bridges

• Rosa Parks

Which vocabulary term is defined as to organize or prepare something, such as a group of people, for a purpose?

• mobilize

• protest

• interfere

• integrate

What was unique about the Highlander Folk School during the Civil Rights era?

• White and Black students learned to work against segregation together.

• White and Black students learned to work in support of the First Amendment separately.

• White and Black students learned to work in support of the First Amendment together.

• White and Black students learned to work against segregation separately.

Which vocabulary term is defined as an official order issued by a legal authority?

• interference

• register

• decree

• communication

Why are the Clinton Twelve famous?

• They were students who participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

• They were students who integrated the first public school in Tennessee.

• They were students who lived in Tent City in Fayette County.

• They were students who refused to attend school until it was integrated.

Choose the correct definition of unconstitutional.

• not written in a national or state constitution

• not prohibited in a national or state constitution

• not clear or understandable in a national or state constiution

• not legal or in accordance with a national or state constitution

What action did the Clinton Twelve take to try to stay safe?

• They lived next to each other in Tent City.

• They attended training workshops at the Highlander Folk School.

• They walked to school together every day.

• They only went places where there were other African Americans.

Choose the correct definition of civil rights.

• the requirements of citizens to serve in the military if called

• the recognition of citizens who were born in other countries

• the rights of citizens to have political and social freedom and equality

• the responsibilities of citizens to vote in elections and serve on juries

What was the original goal of the Highlander Folk School when it opened in the 1930s?

• to train factory workers

• to end racial segregation

• to organize the war effort

• to improve the life of poor Southerners

Choose the correct definition of sharecropper.

• a farmer who only grows crops and does not raise animals

• a farmer who lives on his or her own land but rents animals, equipment, and supplies to farm the land for someone else

• a farmer who sells a share of his or her crops and keeps the rest to feed his or her family

• a farmer who lives on land owned by someone else, rents animals, equipment, and supplies to farm the land, and pays the landowner back with a large share of the harvest