March Book 2

Question 1

Why was Stokely Carmichael asked to protest somewhere other than Nashville?

Accepted Answer

He was lashing out and not using nonviolent principles.

Question 2

Why was deciding to work and organize for civil rights in Cleveland, Mississippi a dangerous idea?

Accepted Answer

It was not that far away from where Emmett Till was killed.

Question 3

How did Rev. Shuttlesworth's respond when Lewis told him about ride a bus with integrated students to Montgomery, AL?

Accepted Answer

He felt it was too volatile and dangerous in Montgomery.

Question 4

Why did Joe Perkins get arrested during the Freedom Ride?

Accepted Answer

He asked for a shoeshine at a barber shop.

Question 5

Where did Lewis stay in DC when he arrived to participate in the 1961 Freedom Ride?

Accepted Answer

The Fellowship House

Question 6

Who narrowly beat out Vice President Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential election?

Accepted Answer

John F. Kennedy

Question 7

Why did John Lewis temporarily leave the 1961 Freedom Ride?

Accepted Answer

He had to go back to Philadephia for an interview for a volunteer program

Question 8

What happened to Herbert Lee after he started helping Bob Moses register voters in Liberty, Mississippi?

Accepted Answer

He was shot dead by a member of the Mississippi legislature.

Question 9

What did the Freedom Riders do to break up the monotony of being in prison?

Accepted Answer

sang songs

Question 10

Who did John Lewis write to when he was in prison in Mississippi?

Accepted Answer

the registrar of his college and the Quakers

Question 11

What was the ruling in the Supreme Court case Boynton vs. Virginia?

Accepted Answer

Segregation & racial discrimination on buses or terminials is illegal.

Question 12

Which stop during the first Freedom Ride feel like it was going to be trouble once the Freedom Riders got off the bus?

Accepted Answer

Rock Hill. South Carolina

Question 13

Why did racism in Jackson, MS feel different than in Montgomery, AL?

Accepted Answer

There was a facade of acceptance in Jackson.

Question 14

How did the waitress at the Krystal restaurant react when Black students asked to be served?

Accepted Answer

She threw water on them.

Question 15

How did John Lewis's parents feel after they found out he had been arrested for protesting?

Accepted Answer

devastated; they felt Lewis was a source of embarassment.

Question 16

Who was John Lewis surprised to see in the lobby of his hotel in D.C. for the March on Washington?

Accepted Answer

Malcolm X

Question 17

What were John Lewis and others protesting when Danny Lyon took a photo that became famous?

Accepted Answer

segregation at a Cairo,IL swimming pool.

Question 18

Who saved the Freedom Riders from getting murdered in Montgomery?

Accepted Answer

Floyd Mann

Question 19

What happened to voter registration organizers in Albany, Georgia?

Accepted Answer

Bullets were shot in their homes.

Question 20

How did the White Citizens Council enforce segregation?

Accepted Answer

through economic and political pressure

Question 21

Why wasn't Lewis able to meet up with his fellow Freedom Riders in Nashville, TN?

Accepted Answer

Their bus was firebombed outside of Anniston, Alabama.

Question 22

What did one of the workers at the Krystal restaurant do to try and get Lewis and another to leave his establishment?

Accepted Answer

turned on a fumigator

Question 23

What percentage of Black families lived under the poverty line in Mississippi in 1961?

Accepted Answer

90%

Question 24

Who came up with the idea for a March on Washington?

Accepted Answer

A. Phillip Randolph

Question 25

What happened to Dr. Bergman as a result of the abuse he suffered in the bus terminal in Birmingham?

Accepted Answer

He has a stroke that paralysed him for the rest of his life.

March Book 2

Questions 25

March Book 2

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