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Grade 5 Civil Rights
In 2008, Carolyn Bryant admitted that her testimony against Till was false.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Civil Rights
After the acquittal, Bryant and Milam admitted during an interview with Look Magazine to killing Emmett Till.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Civil Rights
Emmett Till's murderers were acquitted by an integrated jury.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Civil Rights
It is disputed whether or not Emmett Till whistled at Carolyn Bryant.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Civil Rights
Carolyn Bryant was one of the white owners of a grocery store in Money, Mississippi.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Civil Rights
President Eisenhower came out in support of the management at the Woolworth store.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Civil Rights
The first African American customers served at the Woolworth store where the sit-ins started were store employees.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Civil Rights
Frederick Douglass was born free in Boston.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Civil Rights
Frederick Douglass was able to escape north to New York through the help of Anna Murray who provided him with funds and a disguise.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Civil Rights
In 1845, Frederick Douglass was amazed by the lack of racial discrimination in which country after he began a two your tour away from the United States?
  1. Spain
  2. France
  3. Ireland
  4. Germany
Grade 5 Civil Rights
Because he believed it would lead to slave revolts across the South, Frederick Douglass was a strong supporter of John Brown's idea to attack the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Civil Rights
An African American women who was asked to give up her seat on the bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama was
  1. Harriet Beecher Stowe
  2. Coreta King
  3. Michele Obama
  4. Rosa Parks
Grade 5 Civil Rights
A supporter of women's right and an American abolitionist.
  1. Lucretia Mott
  2. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Grade 5 Civil Rights
A civil rights leader arrested for protesting bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. Her actions helped end the segregation of public buses.
  1. Rosa Parks
  2. Sojourner Truth
  3. Martin Luther King Jr.
Grade 5 Civil Rights
A women's suffrage leader who helped organize the first women's rights convention in 1848.
  1. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  2. Sojourner Truth
Grade 5 Civil Rights
Who planned a nonviolent march in Washington DC to help convince Congress to pass the civil rights bill?
  1. Martin Luther King Jr.
  2. Thurgood Marshall
  3. Olaudah Equiano
Grade 5 Civil Rights
A Minster and Civil Rights leader during the 1950s and 1960s; believed in peaceful protest.
  1. Martin Luther King Jr.
  2. Malcolm X
  3. Colin Powell
Grade 5 Civil Rights
Who was not instrumental in the first movement for women's suffrage?
  1. Lucretia Mott
  2. Frederick Douglass
  3. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  4. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Grade 5 Civil Rights
The                Amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote, ratified in 1920.
  1. Fourteenth
  2. Fifteenth
  3. Nineteenth
Grade 5 Civil Rights
College students used                 to protest against segregation in diners and at lunch counters.
  1. freedom rides
  2. death threats
  3. sit-ins
  4. speeches
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