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Civil Rights JA
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This means bringing races together. | Integration |
| When a person breaks the law knowing he/she will be arrested, but do it to make a point or promote a cause, it is called | Civil disobedience |
| Give an example of civil disobedience | Greensboro sit-ins, Rosa Parks refusal to change sears on the bus |
| What Supreme Court decision ruled that segregation was illegal? | Brown vs. Board of Education |
| In what country did Mohandas Gandhi work in a non-violent way to gain civil rights? | India |
| Give some examples of a Jim Crow law. | Whites and blacks could not use same toilets or bus stations, people of different races could not marry each other, books old not be passes between races |
| True or false Marches were used to help gain voting rights for African Americans. | True He lead the March on Washington |
| Describe what happened in Little Rock, Arkansas during the CRM. | President Eisenhower had to send soldiers to the high school so the Little Rock Nine could attend an all white high school there. |
| How did people in the Little Rock community feel about African American students attending the all white school? | Many showed hatred by screaming, threatening, and spitting at the students as they tried to enter school. |
| True or false Bus stations were segregated in the south. | True |
| Which group tried to bring attention to bus segregation? | Freedom Riders |
| True or False Martin Luther King believed in using violence to gain Civil Rights? | False he used only peaceful, nonviolent methods to gain rights. |
| Which group believed in using violence and self-defense if necessary to gain Civil Rights. | Black Panthers |
| What law ended segregation in public areas? | Civil Rights Act of 1964 |