Answer the following questions based on the Rosa Parks Biography, the MLK Jr. Biography, and you may use the internet for a tool to answer any questions that the biographies did not cover.
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What does segregation mean?
To hate someone because of their skin color
To dislike someone because of the way they look
To seperate someone or something apart from others
To seperate someone because they feel like it
What does it mean to be racist?
To judge someone because of their language
To judge someone positively because of their skin color
To judge someone negatively because of their skin color
To just someone negatively because you dislike them
What is a Jim Crow Law?
A law that seperates you because your job
A law that allows black people to do everything white people can
A law that that doesn't allow black people to do something white people can
A law that says you cannot do something
What was the name of the first church that Martin becamse a minster at?
Dillard Baptist Church
Dester Baptist Church
Deeser Baptist Church
Dexter Baptist Church
Where did Martin go to College?
Georgia
Texas
California
Boston
What was the concern with Martin and Coretta moving south ?
Less jobs
More Discrimination
Harder for kids
All of the above
What was the start of the bus boycott?
Martin wanted to sit wherever he wanted
Martin didn't like how blacks were being treated
Rosa Parks was starting a march to prevent bus discrimination
Rosa Parks was arrested because of discrimination on the bus
How was the community affected by black people not riding the bus?
Only whites were only allowed to ride the bus
Bus companies lost money
Bus companies made blacks and white busses
Black people were only allowed to ride the bus
Check off all the examples of a peaceful protest (5 boxes)
not hitting back
not punching back
marching
giving a speech
Throwing rocks back at them
Doing a sit in
writing a letter
yelling at people
creating a boycott
What is a peaceful protest?
A protest where there is a lot of violence
A protest where there is no violence
A protest where there is some violence
A protest where everyone is violent
What is the NAACP?
National Association for Creative People - They help give more creativity to black people
National Association for Advanement for Christian People - They help give more religious opportunity to black people
National Association for Advanement for Colored People - They help give more opportunity for colored people
What was the focus of Martin's letter from the Birmingham jail?
People should follow all laws
People should disobey unjust laws
People should disobey unjust laws and just laws
People should disobey unjust laws and follow just laws
Why did 250,000 people travel to Washington DC?
To see Martin speak
To see Abraham Lincoln speak
To get segregation to end
To get the civil rights bill passed
To get the colored rights bill passed
Why was it significant that Marin gave his speech infront of the Lincoln Memorial?
Lincoln helped create slavery
Lincoln helped end slavery
Lincoln helped all colored people
Lincoln helped for better opportunities
What was the difference between Malcom X and Martin?
Malcolm X believed in using physical fighting and Martin believed in peacful protests
Martin believed in fighting back and Malcolm X believed in peaceful protests
The both beleived in fighting back
They both believed in peaceful protest
Check off all the boxes that are about Martin's death. (6 boxes)
He got shot
He was marching while it happened
He was giving his speech while it happened
He was fighting for equal rights
He was fighting for better jobs for trash collectors