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WorksheetsTennessee Contributes to the Civil Rights Movement
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 5mins
Lunch counters became desegregated because of this non-violent protest
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Nashville Sit-ins
Highlander Folk School
Clinton 12
Unique because black and white students learned to work against segregation together
Highlander Folk School
Clinton 12
Brown vs. Board of education
March on Washington
Students who integrated the first public school in TN
Non-violent Protests
Highlander Folk School
Clinton 12
Nashville Sit-ins
Developed because African Americans in Fayette County did not have enough money to find housing after being evicted from their homes.
March on Washington
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Non-violent Protests
Tent City
Civil rights movement leaders learned peaceful nonviolent protest methods at ________________________in Tennessee.
The rockabilly folk school
Gandhi's School of Peace
Clinton High School
The Highlander Folk School
Even though black citizens were allowed to vote in Tennessee, they were kept from voting because of the following:
white store keepers refused to sell goods to black people
Insurance companies canceled families' car and home insurance
Some doctors refused to see patients who registered to vote
Land owners evicted black sharecroppers because they registered to vote
all of the above
When black sharecroppers were evicted from their homes they organized ___________________to have a place to live.
strikes
a bread line
tent cities
a riot
Why did the Clinton 12 walk to school together?
They were best friends
To stay safe
They were all family
None of the above
