Civil Rights Movement Day 1

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  1. It was required by law for states to have a separate schools for whites and separate schools for blacks.

    2. Links to reference material:
    Supreme Court Case

    Your answer:
    True False

  2. What Supreme Court case led to the desegregation of public schools?

    3. Links to reference material:
    Supreme Court Case

    Your answer:
    Brown vs. Board of Education
    Plessy vs. Ferguson
    Jim Crow vs. Board of Education
    R. Parks vs. Montgomery

  3. Who refused to give up her seat near the front of the bus in Montgomery?

    4. Links to reference material:
    Bus boycott

    Your answer:

  4. The boycott resulted in

    5. Links to reference material:
    Bus boycott

    Your answer:
    Rosa Parks spending the rest of her life in prison.
    desegragation of the mass transit system in Montgomery.
    free bus tickets to all black residents of Montgomery.
    distribution of Pepsi to all passanger on Montgomery busses.

  5. Who ordered the Arkansas National Guard to not let the nine black students into Little Rock Central High School on September 3, 1957?

    6. Links to reference material:
    Going to a new school

    Your answer:
    Malcolm X
    Governor Faubus
    President Eisenhower
    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

  6. What did President Eisenhower do to help the nine new students at Central High?

    7. Links to reference material:
    Going to a new school

    Your answer:
    He sent federal troops to escort the nine to school.
    Gave the school a years supply of Rice-a-Roni for letting come to their school.
    He built them a school of their own.
    Invited them to the White House before their first day.

  7. Where was the lunch counter students were refused service? (city,state)

    8. Links to reference material:
    Lunch

    Your answer:

    At the lunch counter

  8. In this picture students, both white and black, are protesting by doing this. Look at the picture. What was this kind of protest called?

    9. Your answer:

  9. The freedom rides were trying to end segregation of

    10. Links to reference material:
    Freedom riders

    Your answer:
    schools.
    bus terminals.
    restaurants.
    Disney World.

  10. The freedom rides were a non-violent form of protesting, but they became brutally violent along the way.

    11. Links to reference material:
    Freedom Riders

    Your answer:
    True False

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