Women of the Civil Rights Movement

Your score: 100% (15 points out of 15)

Question #1 (1 point)
Jo Ann Robinson, English professor at Alabama State College and member of the Womens Political
Council, launched the Montgomery bus boycott by printing and delivering flyers to over 35,000
Montgomery citizens.

Your answer:
True

Correct

Question #2 (1 point)
Which female journalist was responsible for supporting the nine high school students through their
first year at Little Rock Central High School in 1957?

Your answer:
Daisy Bates

Correct
Question #3 (1 point)

Which female civil rights leader organized the Cambridge Movement?

Your answer:
Gloria Richardson

Correct

Question #4 (1 point)
Minnijean Brown Trickey is one of the nine African American students who collectively resisted
opposition to the desegregation to enter Little Rock Central High School in 1957, with protection from
federal troops. She was expelled from school and the students made up cards that said "One down,
Eight to go."

Your answer:
True

Correct

Question #5 (1 point)
Which female leader of the civil rights movement joined forces with the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee to launch successful nonviolent direct action campaigns in multiple cities?

Your answer:
Ella Baker

Correct
Question #6 (1 point)

Vivian Malone Jones was the first person to integrate the University of Tennessee in 1958.

Your answer:
False

Correct

Question #7 (1 point)
Coretta Scott was a civil rights activist in her own right, even though often overshadowed by her
husband, Martin Luther King, Jr. She was a gift musician who used her vocal talents to fundraise and
advance the civil rights movement.

Your answer:
True

Correct
Question #8 (1 point)

Angela Davis, radical black

activist and philosopher, was arrested as a suspected conspirator in the
abortive attempt to free George Jackson from a courtroom in Marin County, California, August 7,
1970.

Your answer:
True

Correct
Question #9 (1 point)

Which of the following four women caused to U. S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy to ask Who the
hell is [she]?

Your answer:
Diane Nash

Correct
Question #10 (1 point)

The woman wrote the autobiography- "Coming of Age In Mississippi," which has become a testimony
to the courage black women throughout the south

Your answer:
Anne Moody

Correct

Question #11 (1 point)

Which of the following women was one of the few women to participate at the highest levels of the
civil rights movement, with such others as A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King, jr., and Whitney
Young? She was on the platform when Dr. King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.

Your answer:
Dorothy Height

Correct
Question #12 (1 point)

Ruby Bridges integrated William Frantz Elementary in New Orleans in 1954 immediately following the
Brown vs. Board of Education decision.

Your answer:
False

Correct

Question #13 (1 point)

Charlayne Hunter Gault made civil rights history as the first African American woman to graduate from
the University of Georgia in 1962.

Your answer:
True

Correct

Question #14 (1 point)

Ada Fisher was the first woman to be considered for the presidential nomination at the 1972
Democratic National Convention.

Your answer:
False

Correct
Question #15 (1 point)

Ada Fisher was the first woman to be considered for the presidential nomination at the 1972
Democratic National Convention.

Your answer:
Annie Devine, Fannie Lou Hamer and Victoria Gray Adams

Correct