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Part 1: Chapter 1-3

1. Why were organizations such as NAACP and the NUL formed?
(a) To resist Jim Crow laws.
(b) To form anti-government organizations.
(c) To form violent organizations legally.
(d) To make people angry.

2. On what date did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus?
(a) December 1, 1965.
(b) December 1, 1955.
(c) October 1, 1995.
(d) October 1, 1965.

3. When did the Montgomery Bus boycott begin?
(a) October 1, 1955.
(b) December 5, 1955.
(c) December 1, 1965.
(d) October 1, 1965.

4. Who was the first president of the Montgomery Improvement Association?
(a) Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr.
(b) Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Rosa Parks.
(d) Melba Patillo Beals.

5. What date did the Montgomery buses become integrated?
(a) October 21, 1957.
(b) December 21, 1956.
(c) October 21, 1956.
(d) December 21, 1957.

6. What religious journal contained a summary of Dr. King's book Stride Toward Freedom?
(a) Common Threads.
(b) Believe.
(c) Renounced.
(d) Liberation.

7. During what years did participation by African American churches in American public life surge?
(a) 1940-1950.
(b) 1930-1940.
(c) 1960-1970.
(d) 1950-1960.

8. When was the historic Brown vs. Topeka, Kansas Board of Education Supreme Court decision handed down?
(a) April 1, 1955.
(b) March 17, 1957.
(c) December 1, 1955.
(d) May 17, 1954.

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