Organizing to Demand Rights

Question 1

What percentage of bus riders were African American in 1955?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

75%

Question 2

Why did the African American community believe their boycott would succeed in ending bus segregation?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Buses lost the majority of their business.

Question 3

How was the Southern Christian Leadership Conference different from the Montgomery Improvement Association?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

It focused on civil rights across the South.

Question 4

What was the purpose of the sit-ins?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

To bring about an end to segregation

Question 5

Why might CORE have called its bus campaign freedom rides?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Because they wanted African Americans to be free to travel safely

Question 6

How did Malcolm X bring people into the Nation of Islam?Check all of the boxes that apply.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

He started a newspaper.; He gave stirring speeches.; He opened new branches of the Nation.

Question 7

Read this excerpt from one of Martin Luther King’s speeches. What method of protest is he advocating for in this speech?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

nonviolent resistance

Organizing to Demand Rights Answers