16.2 - Civil Rights Movements (MLK, Protests) Question and answers verified to pass 2024/2025
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16.2 - Civil Rights Movements (MLK, Protests) Question and answers verified to pass 2024/2025 16.2 - Civil Rights Movements (MLK, Protests)
Rosa Parks - correct answer African American activist in Montgomery, Alabama who was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus. The event...
16.2 - Civil Rights Movements (MLK,
Protests)
Rosa Parks - correct answer ✔African American activist in Montgomery,
Alabama who was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus. The
event initiated the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Martin Luther King, Jr. - correct answer ✔Leader of the African American
Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. He was a minister from Montgomery,
Alabama and was assassinated in 1968. He is most famously remembered for
his "I Have a Dream" Speech.
Nonviolence - correct answer ✔The use of peaceful means, not force, to
bring about political or social change.
Civil Disobedience - correct answer ✔The breaking of laws to demonstrate
that they are unjust.
Coretta Scott King - correct answer ✔Civil rights activist and wife of Martin
Luther King, Jr.
Ralph Abernathy - correct answer ✔Co-founder of the SCLC with Martin
Luther King, Jr.
Montgomery Bus Boycott - correct answer ✔1955 civil rights protest let
initiated by the arrest of Rosa Parks in which African Americans refused to
ride city busses until they were desegregated. It was successful and helped
propel Dr. King to prominence as the leader of the Civil Rights Movement.
, Civil Rights Movement - correct answer ✔Overall term for the many protests
throughout the 1950s and 1960s in which African Americans sought to
advance their civil rights through protests, boycotts, sit-ins, marches, etc.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was its generally accepted, although unofficial, leader.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) - correct answer
✔Organization formed by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy to
organize civil rights demonstrations.
Sit-In - correct answer ✔A form of protest used to desegregate lunch
counters in the South in the late-1950s. African American students would
enter a restaurant and sit peacefully until they were served.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) - correct answer ✔Civil
rights organization formed by African American students in 1960s. They
organized sit-ins and joined in other protests.
Freedom Rides - correct answer ✔1961 civil rights demonstration against
segregated waiting rooms at bus terminals. The protesters were attacked
when they arrived in the Deep South.
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) - correct answer ✔Civil rights
organization that participated in the Freedom Rides and other protests.
John Lewis - correct answer ✔Chairman of the SNCC. He helped organize
the March on Washington, participated in the Bloody Sunday march and
represented Georgia in the House of Representatives for more than 30 years.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK) - correct answer ✔Racist organization based in the
South that terrorized African Americans after the Civil War and helped
establish the system of Jim Crow. They were also anti-immigrant, anti-
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