hat was the purpose of the sit-in movement?Responsesto challenge segregation in public busingto challenge segregation in public busingTo challenge the voting restrictions in their local towns and citiesTo challenge the voting restrictions in their local towns and citiesTo challenge police violence and brutality against African AmericansTo challenge police violence and brutality against African AmericansTo challenge segregation at lunch counters in a popular chain-store

What did people in Montgomery, Alabama do to oppose segregation?A.They rioted.B.They walked instead of riding the bus.C.They marched on Washington.D.They staged sit-ins

In the 1970s, riots broke out in Boston over ____ *the integration of neighborhoodsschool busingthe price of teapublic housing

How did the NAACP fight segregation?A.By fighting inequality in public schoolsB.By proving that railway cars were not equalC.By changing the Plessy v. Ferguson Court decisionD.By proving that New York City was segregated

Question 10 of 10Where did a group of Black students try to get service, and by so doing help prompt a coalition of groups who engaged in nonviolent protests?A.In a high schoolB.At a university in the SouthC.At an all-white lunch counterD.On a public bus in Alabam

The civil rights movement’s success was the result of both formal actions by various branches of the federal government (political and legal action) and the actions of various groups in society putting pressure on government officials to strengthen civil rights protections for African Americans (social movement action).Identify the political and legal actions and social movement actions below.Political and Legal ActionMartin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”Civil Rights Act of 1964Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycotts (1955)Voting Rights Act of 1965Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee formed to organize protests, sit-ins, freedom ridesBrown v. Board of Education (1954)President Eisenhower sending 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce the integration of Central High SchoolSocial Movement Action