Civil Rights Walkabout
Answer sheet
Station 1 - Discrimination Against
African Americans
1.Define the term “Segregation”
to cause or force the separation
of; in this case, separating
people based on race
Station 1 - Discrimination Against African Americans
2. How was segregation enforced
in the South?
Laws and customs enforcement
vacation in the south
Station 1 - Discrimination Against
African Americans
3. List 5 examples of segregation in the South.
1. Banned people of different races from sharing
taxicabs
2. Different races have separate entrances to building
3. Separate elevators and stairways
4. Separate drinking fountains
5. Separate water faucets
6. Blacks could not sit on the same train car is whites
7. Blacks had to sit in the back of the bus
8. Blacks had to give up their bus seats to whites
Station 1 - Discrimination Against
African Americans
4. Why did African Americans hesitate
to speak out against segregation?
Fear of being fired from their jobs,
harassed by police, beaten, or
worse (killed).
Station 2 - The Supreme Court Ends
School Segregation
5. List 3 ways in which segregated schools were
separate but unequal.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Blacks schools often
Were old and dingy
Overcrowded
Had few books, maps, textbooks, library
materials
5. Few or no desks
Station 2 - The Supreme Court Ends
School Segregation
6. What year was the Supreme
Court decision Brown v. Board of
Education?
1954
Station 2 - The Supreme Court Ends
School Segregation
7. What did Brown v. Board of
Education say/do?
It ended school segregation
Station 2 - The Supreme Court Ends
School Segregation
8. Who was Thurgood Marshall?
The lawyer who won the Brown v.
Board of Education decision. He
also became the first African
American Supreme Court Justice.
Station 3 - The Montgomery Bus
Boycott
9. Who was Rosa Parks?
She was the African American lady
who, in 1955, was arrested for not
giving up her seat on a bus. This
started the Montgomery Bus
Boycott.
Station 3 - The Montgomery Bus
Boycott
Describe what the Montgomery Bus
Boycott was
and how it affected African Americans.
17,000 African Americans stop riding the
busses. This caused many to carpool or
walk to work everyday.
Station 3 - The Montgomery Bus
Boycott
11. How long did the bus
boycott last?
More than a year
Station 3 - The Montgomery Bus
Boycott
12. What was the result of the
boycott?
The Supreme Court ruled that
segregated busses is
unconstitutional.
Station 3 - The Montgomery Bus
Boycott
13. What role did Martin Luther
King Jr. play in the bus boycott?
MKL was chosen to lead the bus
boycott.
Station 4 - Nonviolent Protests
14. When did the events
surrounding the “Little Rock
Nine” occur?
1957
Station 4 - Nonviolent Protests
15. Describe who the “Little Rock Nine” were
and what they did.
9 African American students who tried
repeatedly to enter Central High School
in Little Rock, AR. They were eventually
allowed in when the President sent
troops to protect them
Station 4 - Nonviolent Protests
16. What is a sit-in?
A form of nonviolent resistance to
segregation in which people occupy
seats in a segregated facility (usually
a restaurant)
Station 4 - Nonviolent Protests
17. Were sit-ins successful? Why
or why not?
Yes. Sit-ins negatively affected
business profits and business
owners needed to make a profit
Station 5 - The Movement Comes to
Birmingham
18. Why did Civil Rights leaders chose
to protest in Birmingham, Alabama?
Because in up until 1962, Birmingham
had succeeded in denying African
Americans civil rights and
continuing segregation.
Station 5 - The Movement Comes to
Birmingham
19. List tactics used by the Birmingham police and Bull
Connor to end the protests.
1. Threatened to throw store owners in jail if they
served African Americans
2. Arrested MLK for “Parading without a permit”
3. Arrested protesters
4. Sprayed protesters with high pressure hoses
5. Swung nightsticks at people’s heads
6. Used attack dogs
Station 5 - The Movement Comes to
Birmingham
20. Summarize the main point of
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a
Birmingham Jail.”
That the protesters do not cause
tensions, but that they expose the
tensions that already exist.
Station 5 - The Movement Comes to
Birmingham
21. What were the Children’s
marches?
Because so many protesters had been
arrested, MLK agreed to recruit and
allow children to protest.
Station 5 - The Movement Comes to
Birmingham
22. How did Birmingham become
desegregated?
President Kennedy sent 3,000 troops to
restore peace. Store owners ended
segregation in their stores. The mayor
had ended segregation at the library,
golf courses, park, and schools.
Station 6 - The March on Washington
and Civil Rights Laws
23. When did the Civil Rights
March on Washington take place?
August 28, 1963
Station 6 - The March on Washington
and Civil Rights Laws
24. What famous speech was given
at this march?
Martin Luther King Jr.’s
“I Have a Dream”
Station 6 - The March on Washington
and Civil Rights Laws
25. What did the Civil Rights Act of
1964 do?
Outlawed segregation in public
facilities and banned discrimination
in employment based on race, sex,
religion, or nationality.
Station 6 - The March on Washington
and Civil Rights Laws
26. What did the Voting Rights Act do?
Outlawed literacy test, allowed the
President to register blacks to vote
in 7 southern states. In a few
months, over 600,000 African
Americans had registered to vote in
the south.
Station 6 - The March on Washington
and Civil Rights Laws
27. How did Martin Luther King Jr.
die?
He was shot to death by James
Earl Ray
Station 7 - Black Power
28. What is meant by the term “Black
Power”?
The call by some civil rights activist
for African Americans to have
political and economic power. This
included not relying on nonviolent
protests.
Station 7 - Black Power
29. How did “black pride” and “black
power” cause some young African
Americans to reject Martin Luther King
Jr.’s philosophy of nonviolence?
Many African Americans thought that
they should be able to defend
themselves even with violence.
Station 7 - Black Power
30. Why did many African Americans believe
they should be able to defend themselves
with violence?
Many believed that nonviolence didn’t achieve
change fast enough. Others were taught that
whites were the enemies of blacks and that
blacks would never gain respect if they
depended on whites for everything.
Station 7 - Black Power
31. Who was Malcolm X?
A black Civil Rights leader who
thought that African Americans
should gain their freedom by any
means necessary (including
violence)