VIDEO QUIZ BLACKSIDE - AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS

1954-1965

1. WHAT SUPREME COURT CASE RULED THAT SEGREGATED SCHOOLS WERE UNCONSTITUTIONAL IN 1954? Brown v. Board of Education

2. IN WHAT TOWN AND STATE WAS EMMITT TILL, A BLACK BOY, MURDERED FOR TALKING TO A WHITE GIRL IN 1955? Money, Mississippi

3. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE 2 MEN ACCUSED OF KILLING TILL? Found not guilty

4. WHO WAS THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR BEGINNING THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT IN ALABAMA IN 1955 FOR REFUSING TO GIVE UP A SEAT ON A BUS TO A WHITE PERSON? Rosa Parks

5. WHO WAS CHOSEN TO LEAD THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT IN ALABAMA? MLK Jr.

6. WHO WAS ORVILLE FAUBUS? Governor of Arkansas

7. WHY DID FAUBUS REFUSE TO INTEGRATE LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS's PUBLIC SCHOOLS? try to get re-elected

8. HOW MANY BLACK STUDENTS ATTENDED CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL? 9

9. WHERE DID MANY BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS DEMONSTRATORS LEARN THEIR TACTICS OF NON-VIOLENCE? Jim Lawson workshops

10. WHERE DID THE NON-VIOLENT TACTIC OF PROTESTING SEGREGATED LUNCH COUNTERS DISPLAY ITSELF AS THE FIRST SIT-IN IN 1960? Greensboro, North Carolina

11. WHAT OTHER SOUTHERN CITY SAW THE USE OF THE SIT-IN TO PROTEST SEGREGATED LUNCH COUNTERS? Nashville, Tennessee

12. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE STUDENTS ARRESTED IN NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE? Arrested and put in jail

13. WHAT DID BLACK PARENTS DO TO PROTEST THE ARRESTING OF THEIR CHILDREN IN NASHVILLE? Boycotted businesses

14. WHAT PROMPTED THE FIRST MAJOR CIVIL RIGHTS MARCH IN THE US IN 1960 IN NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE? Bombing of Z. Alexander Lube’s/black city councilman’s home

15. WHAT CITY DID THE DEMONSTRATORS MOVE TO NEXT? Raleigh, North Carolina

16. WHO WAS THE LEADER OF THE SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE? Martin Luther King, Jr.

17. WHO WAS THE HEAD OF SNCC THAT ADVISED STUDENTS TO REMAIN SEPARATE FROM THE SCLC? Ella Baker

18. WHAT DID THE FEDERAL MANDATE ISSUED IN NOVEMBER 1961 PERMIT BLACKS TO DO? Interstate travel

19. WHO WAS ARRESTED AND SENTENCED FOR 45 DAYS IN JAIL IN ALBANY, GEORGIA FOR PROTESTING SEGREGATION AND RELEASED AFTER 3 DAYS? Martin Luther King, Jr.

20. WERE THE EFFORTS OF THE DEMONSTRATORS IN ALBANY, GEORGIA SUCCESSFUL? No

21. WHO SAID, "SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER?" George Wallace

22. WHO WAS THE RACIST COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC SAFETY IN BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA? Eugene “Bull” Conner

23. WHERE WAS THE BIRTHPLACE OF MARTIN LUTHER KING's TRUE LEADERSHIP? Birmingham, Alabama

24. WHO LED THE MARCH FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IN MAY AFTER MARTIN LUTHER KING's RELEASE FROM JAIL? Youth/children of Birmingham

25. HOW DID BULL CONNOR TRY TO STOP THE DEMONSTRATORS? Police dogs and high- powered fire-hydrants water power

26. ON AUGUST 28, 1963, WHAT CITY SAW 200,000 PEOPLE MARCH FOR JOBS AND FREEDOM? Washington, D.C.

27. WHO WAS HEAD OF SNCC IN 1963 AND CRITICIZED JOHN F. KENNEDY'S POLICY ON CIVIL RIGHTS? John Lewis

28. WHAT DID BLACKS COME TO SEE AS THEIR ONLY WAY TO PROTECT THEIR RIGHTS AND FREEDOM AFTER THE BIRMINGHAM CHURCH BOMBING? Had to push for voting rights