Events of Civil Rights Movement

Why did Linda Brown want to go to the all-white school instead of the all-black school?

• Because it was closer to her house

• Because her best friend went there

• 
  Because she thought there were aliens abducting people from the other one

Why did Emmitt Till's mother make her son's funeral an open-casket one and allow photographers to take pictures of the body, despite the fact that it was horribly maimed?

• She just didn't think of the consequences

• So the world could see what happened to Emmitt

• For the publicity $$$

How did the Montgomery Bus Boycott pressure bus companies into changing their segregation policy?

• Brought public embarrassment of being racist

• Deprived them of money from black customers

Why did President Eisenhower order the Army and the National guard to go to Little Rock, Arkansas?

• Why did President Eisenhower order the Army and the National guard to go to Little Rock, Arkansas?

• To stop black students from attending Little Rock High School

• To fight the communists in Little Rock

Which word means to separate into groups?

• integrate

• segregate

• inclusion

• organize

What did the arrest of Rosa Parks lead to?

• 
  school integration

• 
  boycott of city buses

• riots in Birmingham

• civil rights movement

The Woolworth’s Sit-In movement aimed to challenge:

• Voting restrictions

• Segregation in public accommodations

• Housing discrimination

• Unequal pay in the workforce

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education stated that:

• 
  Segregation in schools was constitutional if facilities were equal

• Segregation in public schools was unconstitutional

• Private schools could not discriminate based on race

• Only colleges and universities had to integrate