How many students took part in the first sit-in at the Woolworth’s in Greensboro?
Two
Four
Six
Which organisation was set up by students in 1960?
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
What advice were students in Nashville given to increase the impact of the sit-in?
Use violence against staff
Stay in jail once they had been arrested
Stand up and leave if asked
What form of desegregation were the Freedom Riders testing?
Interstate travel
Education
Public dining
What did James Meredith want to do in September 1962?
Watch a film in a segregated theatre
Register to vote
Attend a university that only admitted white students
Who ordered the police to use violence against Dr Martin Luther King Jnr’s Birmingham protest in 1963?
Commissioner Eugene ‘Bull’ Connor
President John F Kennedy
President Lyndon B Johnson
Who thought the March on Washington was controlled by the federal government?
Dr Martin Luther King Jnr
A. Philip Randolph
Malcolm X
What did the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964 aim to achieve?
Voter registration
Mass sit-ins
Large-scale protests
Which president passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act?
President Dwight D Eisenhower
Why did protests in Selma, Alabama, appear in the national news?
The authorities used violence
The protestors wanted more voting rights
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) advertised it