Studies Weekly Week 28

True or False: The Montgomery bus boycott ended when the courts ruled that segregation of buses was unconstitutional.

• True

• False

True or False: Some of the ways African Americans fought for change during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960's was by marching, boycotting buses, giving speeches; the Freedom Riders traveling to test segregation; and speeches given by Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.

• True

• False

Who were Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley?

• students at the University of Alabama

• Freedom Riders who traveled through the U.S.

• African American girls killed in a church bombing

Which act made segregation of all public spaces illegal?

• the Civil Rights Act of 1964

• the Voting Rights Act of 1965

• the Civil Rights Act of 1968

Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice?

• Edward Brooke

• Leroy Stover

• Thurgood Marshall

Who organized freedom concerts to tell the story of the Civil Rights Movement?

• Rosa Parks

• Coretta Scott King

• Malcolm X

Who refused to give up a bus seat, which led to the Montgomery bus boycott?

• Rosa Parks

• Sally Smith

• Jane Marshall

Who was waiting for the Freedom Riders when their Greyhound bus arrived in Anniston, Alabama?

• a mob of 200 white people

• the National Guard

• Governor George Wallace