Author Question: How did white violence impact the development of the civil rights movement? A) It made no impact. ... (Read 105 times)

bb · **on:** Aug 9, 2018

How did white violence impact the development of the civil rights movement?

A) It made no impact.
B) It helped to end the movement.
C) It revealed southern racism to the larger public, extending the movement.
D) It found approval as a tactic by the federal government, ending the movement.

Question 2

Why did the NAACP decide not to use Claudette Colvin's arrest as a test case on the buses?

A) Colvin was a white woman who tried to sit in the black section of the bus, and they wanted a black woman arrested.
B) Colvin and her parents were not part of the local black social elite.
C) Colvin was too old and in unstable health, and they did not feel she would make it through an arduous trial.
D) Colvin had already had her life threatened by white supremacists in Montgomery and Birmingham.