to refuse to use or buy in order to show disapproval
The United Farm Workers Association organized a _____________of grapes furing the late 1960s to protest the poor working and living conditions of migrant farm workers.
What is boycott?
100
This college professor risked her job at Alabama State College by printing over 50,000 leaflets announcing the boycott.
Who is Jo Ann Robinson?
100
This 26-year old leader of the Montgomery bus boycott advocated nonviolent protest to challenge Mongomery's bus segregation.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
100
The initials NAACP stand for
What is National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
100
These characteristics made Rosa Parks a perfect candidate for a Federal Civil Rights case.
What is maturity, respect, patience, even-tempered, strong?
200
highest in rank or power
Nelson Mandela challenged the rule of white ___________in South Africa and became the country's first black president.
What is supremacy?
200
She was a teenage high school student who claimed it was her constitutional right not to have to give up her seat to a white person, and she fought with the police during her arrest.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
200
He was the leader of the NAACP in Montgomery, AL, who wanted to challenge bus segregation laws in court.
Who is E.D.Nixon?
200
The initials WCC stand for
What is the White Citizens Council?
200
The conflict that the Police Commissioner has with the black taxi cab dirvers, telling them they must charge the minimum fare of $.45 per ride, not the $.10 fare they had been charging is a/an ____________________conflict.
What is an external conflict?
300
unjust treatment of races, genders, or religions
The judges ___________against the female contestants by repeatedly asking them more difficult questions than those asked of the male contestants.
What is discriminated?
300
This friend of Rosa Parks helped Rosa get training in challenging segregation and helped Parks get released from jail when Parks was arrested.
Who is Virginia Durr?
300
He was a white minister of a Lutheran church who openly supported the Mongomery bus boycott; dynamite exploded on his front lawn and his home was later bombed for his support of the boycott.
Who is Robert Graetz?
300
What do the initials MIA stand for
What is the Montgomery Improvement Association?
300
King struggles with whether or not to continue the boycott when he learns that some people are making plans to take his life is a/an_________________conflict.
What is an internal conflict?
400
the practice of forced separation of a race or ethnic group from the main group.
During World War II, Jews experienced ______________when they were forced to live in ghettos, or restricted areas.
What is segregation?
400
She was a seamstress whose arrest for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white person launched the Montgomery bus boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
400
This official in Montgomergy asked white women to stop driving their housekeepers to and from work during the boycott.
Who is Mayor Gayle?
400
The letters KKK stand for
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
400
He was a 14 year-old boy from Chicago who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan when visiting relatives in Mississippi.
Who is Emmett Till?
500
a cause or reason for blame or disgrace
The political party wanted to choose a candidate for president that was above _____________because the candidate would be subject to intense examination by the media.
What is reproach?
500
This official convicted King of running an illegal bus boycott.
Who is Judge Eugene Carter?
500
This man was an Indian leader who successfully used the strategy of nonviolence to protest British colonial rule of India.
Who is Mahatma Ghandi?
500
Murder, retaliation, verbal assaults, threats, bombs, KKK, etc.
What are things that black people faced who participated in the boycott?