1. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott, launched after Rosa Parks’s arrest on 1 December 1955, last? 381 days 30 days 100 days Two years The boycott began on 5 December 1955 and lasted 381 days, ending after the Supreme Court affirmed Browder v. Gayle. Read more 2. In January 1957 Martin Luther King Jr. helped found which organization and became its first president? The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee The Congress of Racial Equality The Southern Christian Leadership Conference The Montgomery Improvement Association King was the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He had led the Montgomery Improvement Association since December 1955. Read more 3. Which 1954 Supreme Court decision did Thurgood Marshall win as chief counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund? Browder v. Gayle Brown v. Board of Education Plessy v. Ferguson Loving v. Virginia The Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education on 17 May 1954. Read more 4. In April 1960 Ella Baker convened a conference at Shaw University that founded which organization? The Southern Christian Leadership Conference The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party The National Council of Negro Women The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee The Shaw University conference of 15–17 April 1960 founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Read more 5. Fannie Lou Hamer testified before the 1964 Democratic National Convention’s Credentials Committee for which party she helped found? The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party The Lowndes County Freedom Organization The Black Panther Party The Peace and Freedom Party Hamer helped found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in April 1964 and testified in Atlantic City on 22 August 1964. Read more 6. Where was John Lewis beaten by Alabama state troopers on Bloody Sunday, 7 March 1965? Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham The Alabama State Capitol, Montgomery The Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma The Greyhound station, Montgomery Troopers fractured Lewis’s skull at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. Read more 7. After breaking with the Nation of Islam in 1964, Malcolm X founded which organization? The Universal Negro Improvement Association The Black Panther Party The Revolutionary Action Movement The Organization of Afro-American Unity Malcolm X founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity in 1964, the year he announced his break with the Nation and made the hajj. Read more 8. Constance Baker Motley’s litigation in Meredith v. Fair led James Meredith to enroll in 1962 at which university? The University of Alabama The University of Mississippi The University of Georgia The University of Arkansas Meredith enrolled at the University of Mississippi on 1 October 1962. Motley’s earlier clients Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes integrated the University of Georgia. Read more 9. In 1968 Shirley Chisholm became the first Black woman elected to Congress, representing which New York borough? Brooklyn Manhattan The Bronx Queens Born in Brooklyn, Chisholm represented the borough for seven terms before retiring in 1983. Read more 10. The first of Septima Clark’s Citizenship Schools opened in January 1957 on which South Carolina sea island? St. Helena Island Hilton Head Island Johns Island Sullivan’s Island The first Citizenship School opened on Johns Island on 7 January 1957, teaching adults to read, write, and register to vote. Read more Check my answers ← All quizzes