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#5. Who was Rosa Parks and what did she do? She was a black, 42 year old woman on her way home from work. She sat in the black section in the back of a bus. She refused to give up her seat to a white man. 

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#5. Who was Rosa Parks and what did she do? She was a black, 42 year old woman on her way home from work. She sat in the black section in the back of a bus. She refused to give up her seat to a white man. 

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Jacqueline Zuniga

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2.. According to the website, why is the history of black Americans and their strife for civil rightssignificant to the history of the United States?

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2.. According to the website, why is the history of black Americans and their strife for civil rightssignificant to the history of the United States?

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Trying to make everyone equal and fight for there rights. The history of black Americans and there strife for civil rights.

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The Selma to Montgomery march was to protest the killing of a black rights activist by a white police officer. The march became violent, protesters were beaten and hospitalized. The entire event was televised and became known as "Bloody Sunday".

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3. what is the significance of the brown vs. board of education decision.

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3. what is the significance of the brown vs. board of education decision.

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In 1954, the civil rights movement gained momentum when the United States Supreme Court made segregation illegal in public schools in the case of Brown v. Board of Education. In 1957, Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas asked for volunteers from all-black high schools to attend the formerly segregated school.

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9. What event, related to the Civil Rights Movement, occurred in February of 1960? 

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9. What event, related to the Civil Rights Movement, occurred in February of 1960? 

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On February 1, 1960, four college students took a stand against segregation in Greensboro, North Carolina when they refused to leave a Woolworth’s lunch counter without being served.

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7. How is the response of the community to the Rosa Parks incident a fight for civil rights?

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7. How is the response of the community to the Rosa Parks incident a fight for civil rights?

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the NAACP and other African American activists immediately called for a bus boycott to be held by black citizens on Monday, December 5. Word was spread by fliers, and activists formed the Montgomery Improvement Association to organize the protest. The first day of the bus boycott was a great success, and that night the 26-year-old Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., told a large crowd gathered at a church, “The great glory of American democracy is the right to protest for right.” King emerged as the leader of the bus boycott and received numerous death threats from opponents of integration. At one point, his home was bombed, but he and his family escaped bodily harm.

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5. Who was Rosa Parks, and what did she do? By refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus in 1955, black seamstress Rosa Parks

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#8 According to the website, what/who inspired Martin Luther King Jr.?

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#8 According to the website, what/who inspired Martin Luther King Jr.?

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The main purpose of forcing civil rights legislation and establishing job equality for everyone.

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11. What events brought about the creation of the civil rights act of 1964?

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11. What events brought about the creation of the civil rights act of 1964?

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The civil rights act of 1957, Woolworth's lunch counter, March on Washington.

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1.In general, what is meant by civil rights?

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1.In general, what is meant by civil rights?

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The civil rights movement was a struggle struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for blacks to gain equal rights under the law in the United States.

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6. What occurred as a result of Rosa Parks being arrested?

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6. What occurred as a result of Rosa Parks being arrested?

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As word of her arrest ignited outrage and support, Parks unwittingly became the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement.”

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15. What was the significance of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in relation to the Civil Rights Movement?
When President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law on August 6, 1965, he took the Civil Rights Act of 1964 several steps further. The new law banned all voter literacy tests and provided federal examiners in certain voting jurisdictions. It also allowed the attorney general to contest state and local poll taxes.

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#5 who was Rosa Parks and what did she do?

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#5 who was Rosa Parks and what did she do?

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a 42-year-old woman, The bus driver instructed Parks and three other blacks to give up their seats. Parks refused and was arrested. As word of her arrest ignited outrage and support, Parks unwittingly became the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement.”

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16. Briefly explain the views of Malcolm X and how they differed from that of Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer: Malcolm X was built more on an enraged type of speaking, and he believed that all Americans of European descent were evil. On the other hand Martin Luther King Jr was more peaceful and taught that all men should be created equal no matter what color. Malcolm X even commented on President John F. Kennedy’s assassination as a matter of the “chickens coming home to roost".