Student Civil Rights Activism: Crash Course Black American History #37

When is the Civil Rights Movement considered to have officially started?

• 1968

• 1954

• 1945

• 1970

What was a common tactic used by Black Americans to organize against discrimination during the Civil Rights Movement?

• Violent protests

• Legal lawsuits only

• Non-violent direct action

• Political lobbying

What was the main goal of the Little Rock Nine?

• To protest the Vietnam War

• To establish a new civil rights organization

• To test the Supreme Court's ruling on school desegregation

• To run for student government

Who recruited the students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas?

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Daisy Gatson Bates

• Elizabeth Eckford

Who were the four college students who started the sit-in protest at the Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina?

• Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeill

• Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, John Lewis, Medgar Evers

• James Farmer, Ella Baker, Stokely Carmichael, Diane Nash

• Thurgood Marshall, Ruby Bridges, Emmett Till, Malcolm X

What was Ella Baker's key role in the Civil Rights Movement, particularly concerning student activism?

• She led the first major Freedom Ride through Alabama

• She organized a 1960 conference that trained students in nonviolent direct action

• She founded the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

• She became the first African American woman to serve in Congress

What was the main goal of the Freedom Rides in 1961?

• To integrate interstate bus travel and facilities

• To protest segregation in public schools

• To register African American voters in the South

• To demand equal pay for Black workers

What was a significant outcome of the Freedom Rides?

• The immediate passage of a new federal civil rights law

• The Interstate Commerce Commission began enforcing the segregation ban in interstate transit terminals

• All lunch counters in the Southern states were immediately desegregated

• The Ku Klux Klan was officially outlawed across the United States