Civil Rights

Question 1

What are the six principles of nonviolence

Answer 1

1. Requires bravery
2. Non violence seeks agreement
3. Nonviolence is focused at fighting the cause not the person who is for it
4. Suffering for the cause if necessary
   5 refuse to fight with physical actions
5. Faith that justice will prevail

Question 2

What was the civil rights movement

Answer 2

mass protest movement against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern United States that came to national prominence during the mid-1950s.Mar 1, 2015

Question 3

Montgomery bus boy cot

Answer 3

African Americans refused to go on busses until the laws segregating them were gotten rid of.

Question 4

What was the goal of the children’s march.

Answer 4

The goal was to end segregation. Of adults were protesting they would lose there jobs and the life of African Americans would be worse. So they used children they thought that the whites would not hurt the children

Question 5

Little rock 9

Answer 5

Nine back children integrated into a white school in little rock

Question 6

Esenhauers role in the integration of the little rock nine

Answer 6

Eisenhower took away the segregation in the schools

Question 7

What are sit-ins?

Answer 7

Black college students sat in white restaurants and got beat up and didn’t fight back

Question 8

What are freedom riders

Answer 8

a person who challenged racial laws in the American South in the 1960s, originally by refusing to abide by the laws designating that seating in buses be segregated by race.

Question 9

What was Bloody Sunday

Answer 9

The three Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965 were part of the Voting Rights Movement underway in Selma, Alabama

Question 10

Mlk and his non violence philosophy

Answer 10

Six principles and he thought that not fighting physically but fighting with words and movements

Question 11

Mlks I have a dream speach

Answer 11

He went last and he gave the speach at Lincoln memorial during a nonvoilent walk

Question 12

What was the march on Washington

Answer 12

People with MLK walked around Washington to the Lincoln memorial and many people gave speeches

Question 13

Voting rights act of 1965

Answer 13

African Americans got the right to vote a while ago but now they could go without literacy tests.

Question 14

Rosa parks

Answer 14

“She sat on a bus” and went to jail for not giving up her seat to a white man

Question 15

Emit Louis till

Answer 15

He was murdered after hitting on a white woman

Question 16

Jimmie lee Jackson

Answer 16

Jimmie Lee Jackson was a civil rights activist in Marion, Alabama, and a deacon in the Baptist church

Question 17

James Chaney

Answer 17

American civil rights worker who was murdered during Freedom Summer by members of the Ku Klux Klan near Philadelphia, Mississippi

Question 18

Andrew goodman

Answer 18

Andrew Goodman was one of three American civil rights activists murdered near Philadelphia, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer in 1964 by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

Question 19

Bull Connor

Answer 19

Theophilus Eugene Connor, known as Bull Connor, was the Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of Birmingham, Alabama, during the American Civil Rights Movement. And did any thing he could to try to get rid of African Americans

Question 20

JFK

Answer 20

was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963, he helped bring segrigation to a halt

Question 21

James bevel

Answer 21

James Luther Bevel was a leader of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement who, as the Director of Direct Action and Director of Nonviolent Education of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference initiated,

Question 22

Gwen Webb

Answer 22

She helped in the non violence acts