Civil Rights Movement and Segregation

What does Civil Rights Movement mean?

• 1. fight to end segregation and discrimination against African Americans in the United States. 

• end nothing

• end discrimination against children

• civil rights

Who helped integrate an elementary school in Louisiana?

• Rosa Parks

• Cady Stanton

• Ruby Bridges

• Lucretia Motts

Separate water fountains and restrooms were assigned to people of color. This is an example of?

• boycott

• nothing

• civil rights

• Segregation

1. Who spoke against segregation and championed nonviolent protest?

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Jackie Robinson

• George Washington

• Teddy Roosevelt

Who was the first African American player in an all-white professional sports league.

• Steph Curry

• Michael Jordan

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Jackie Robinson

Martin Luther King Jr. believed that ___ and ___ could bring a great change.

• nothing, and anything

• sit-ins, and peaceful protest

• speaking, and boycotts

• boycott, and sit-ins

Why was Rosa Parks arrested?

• She refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger.

• Marching in the street.

• Speaking at a convention.

• Walking on side walk.

What did the U.S. Supreme Court decide?

• against the law to drive

• 1. It was against the law to make African American passengers give up their seats on public transit.

• nothing

• against the law to walk