February is Black History Month-10 questions

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Just wanna see how much you know about the Civil Rights Movement!! Take the quiz and I'll post your score! 1. What group of students was famous for challenging the scool segregation in the seep south? a)Little Rock Nine b)The Southern Christian Leadership Conference c)The Blak Panthers 2.Who is the person responsible for launching the Birmingham bus boycottt, one of the pivotal events of the civi-rights movement? a)Stokely Carmichael b)Rosa Parks c)Shirley Chisolm 3.Who was the Lawyer who won the Supreme Court case, Brown V, Board of Educatio nof Topeka (1954), which made segregation in public schools illegal? a)Roy Wilkins b)Ralph Abernathy c)Thurgood Marshall 4.Woolworth's department store in the South used to refuse to serve African Americans at their lunch counters. What was the name of the group of students who held the first sit-ins at Woolworth's to protest the store's segregationalist policies? a)The Greensboro Four b)The Scottsboro Boys c)The Little rock Nine 5.Who was the first student to enroll t the University of Mississippi? a)James Meridith b)Jesse Jackson c)W.E.B. DuBois 6.Who was the 14-year-old black by who was brutally murdered by white racists in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman? a)Emmett Till b)Crispus Attucks c)Dred Scott 7.Who became the first African-American player to break Major League baseballs unwritten rule about hiring blacks a)Satchel Paige b)Jackie Robinson c)Willie Mays 8.Who were the freedom raiders? a)Student groups who rode buses throughout the South in order to integrate interstate transportation. b)This was a name for civil rights marchers. c)Members of the KKK who attack civil rights activists. 9.Who were the three young civil-rights workers who were murdered in Mississippi while working to register balck voters a)James E. Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner b)The Scottsboro Boys c)Edgar Ray Killen, James Earl Ray, and Byron De La Beckwith 10.The day before he was assassinated, what was Martin Luther King engaged in? a)He was in Montgomery supporting a bus boycott. b)He was in Memphis supporting black garbage collectors who were on strike. c)He attended the March on Washington. Post Your Answers and I'll Post The Scores!