Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement
Explore the pivotal role of Rosa Parks in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and its impact on the broader Civil Rights Movement in the United States. This worksheet covers key events, figures, and concepts related to this critical period in American history.
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Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement
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Read each question carefully and provide thoughtful answers. Use your knowledge of the Civil Rights Movement and the role of Rosa Parks to complete this worksheet.
1. What was the immediate cause of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
The Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education
Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a bus
The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
The March on Washington
2. Which organization played a significant role in organizing the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
3. Rosa Parks' act of defiance on December 1, 1955, took place in , Alabama.
4. The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted for days, significantly impacting the city's public transportation system.
5. Explain the concept of 'separate but equal' as it related to public transportation in the Jim Crow South.
6. How did the Montgomery Bus Boycott contribute to the broader success of the Civil Rights Movement?
7. The Supreme Court case that ultimately declared segregation on public buses unconstitutional was Plessy v. Ferguson.
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False
8. Martin Luther King Jr. emerged as a prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement during the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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False
Match the term with its correct definition or description.
9. Jim Crow Laws
a. The act of refusing to obey certain laws or demands of a government
10. Civil Disobedience
b. State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
11. NAACP
c. A civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight for the rights of African Americans
Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey after being arrested on February 22, 1956, during the Montgomery bus boycott.
12. Analyze the image above. What does this photograph symbolize in the context of the Civil Rights Movement?