The Civil Rights Movement Interactive Quiz

Rosa Parks was BEST known for __________________.
1. enrolling in an all white school
2. refusing to give up her seat on the bus
3. working for the NAACP
4. starting the sit-in movement
On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks sat in the section of the bus __________________________.
1. for African Americans
2. for "Whites Only"
3. where African Americans were allowed to sit if no white passengers were standing
4. meant for special riders such as policemen and company owners
In court Rosa was _______________
1. found guilty and was fined $14
2. found innocent
3. found guilty and had to spend a week in jail
4. told her case must go to the Supreme Court
Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement asked ________________________ to lead the boycott of the Montgomery Bus system.
1. Ralph Abernathy
2. E. D. Nixon
3. Thurgood Marshall
4. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Check all that apply.

The civil rights leaders asked for only three changes. They included ______________.
1. making it lawful for white and African American persons to play together in games such as dice, dominoes, checkers, pool, billiards, softball, basketball, baseball, football, golf, pr track
2. to change the law that said African American bus riders must give up their seats to white passengers
3. that bus drivers must be polite to all riders
4. African Americans would be allowed to pay an equal fare to ride the bus as the white passengers
5. all buses would be of equal standards
6. to hire African American bus drivers
Rosa Parks became known as ________________________.
1. the Executive Director of the NAACP
2. the Human Rights Cornerstone
3. the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
4. the Founding Mother of Freedom

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