African American Civil Rights Movement

After Rosa Parks was arrested, who led the protest to boycott busses called the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Rosa Parks

• Thurgood Marshall

• John F. Kennedy

Martin Luther King Jr. believed that African Americans could gain their rights by protesting against unfair laws in what way?

• Violently

• By fighting

• With a Civil War

• Peacefully

What was the 1963 march led by Martin Luther King Jr. in which more than 250,000 people marched through Washington, D.C. called?

• March on DC

• March on Washington

• Marching Orders

• Trail through Washington

What is the name of MLK's most famous speech?

• I Can See it Now

• I Have a Plan

• I Have a Dream

• Dreams

Which law banned discrimination of any American because of their race, religion, or color?

• The Civil Disobedience Act

• The Civil Rights Act

• Rights Law

• Right to be Civil Act

College students used _____ to protest against segregation in diners and at lunch counters.

• sit-ins

• freedom rides

• speeches

• death threats

Segregation is ...

• separate facilities for minority groups

• racial segregation separated african americans and whites

• separate but equal, were usually not equal

• all of the above

Protesters rode buses to protest segregation in train/bus stations, the bus trips were called:

• segregation

• freedom rides

• boycott

• integration rides

Name the civil rights leader arrested for protesting bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Sojourner Truth

• Rosa Parks

• Malcolm X

Name the civil rights leader who was Islamic and believed white Americans would never support equal rights.

• Malcolm X

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Rosa Parks

• Booker T. Washington