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Quiz about Eyes on the Prize Awakenings
Quiz about Eyes on the Prize Awakenings

"Eyes on the Prize": "Awakenings" Quiz


This 14 hour documentary is the most complete testimony of the Civil Rights Era. Here is a quiz on hour one of this monumental film covering the murder of Emmitt Till and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

A multiple-choice quiz by JoeSmow. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
JoeSmow
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
268,206
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
204
Last 3 plays: Guest 156 (10/10), Guest 174 (10/10), Guest 73 (7/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. What supreme court decision does the series say started the Civil Rights Movement? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. According to the series, whose death is widely considered to be the spark that ignited the Civil Rights Movement? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. What was the line, delivered by Mose Wright, that marked the first defiance of the Jim Crow south? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. What magazine published the photos of Till's brutalized corpse? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. What happened to Till's murderers? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. What was Rosa Parks' job when she refused to give up her seat? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. How old was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when he was asked to lead the Montgomery Improvement Association? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Complete the line: "And we are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs down like water and righteousness like ___________."

Answer: (Three Words, first one is "a")
Question 9 of 10
9. Who was the primary planner of the Montgomery Bus Boycott? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. What supreme court decision does the series say started the Civil Rights Movement?

Answer: Brown v. Board of Education

"By the early 1950s, change was in the air. Thousands of black soldiers who had fought to liberate Europe from the grip of Nazi fascism and racism in World War II, returned home determined to fight bigotry and injustice. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's (NAACP)* legal victory in Brown v. Board of Education helped to legitimize the emerging struggle: this decision overturned an 1896 Supreme Court ruling known as Plessy v. Ferguson which legalized 'separate but equal' facilities and services for blacks and whites. The 1954 ruling, in effect, challenged all Americans to live up to the Constitutional vision of a society that promised 'liberty and justice for all.'"
-This quote from the film is located at www.facinghistory.org
The primary elements of Brown v. Board of Education were overturned in July of 2007 by the Supreme Court.
2. According to the series, whose death is widely considered to be the spark that ignited the Civil Rights Movement?

Answer: Emmett Till

Till, a 14 year old boy from Chicago, was brutally beaten to death for speaking "disrespectfully" to a white woman while visiting his uncle in Money, Mississippi. His body was tossed into a river, and the events that followed united the black community and changed the world.
3. What was the line, delivered by Mose Wright, that marked the first defiance of the Jim Crow south?

Answer: Dar He

Mose Wright was Till's uncle. He testified that Till's murderers came to his house and took the boy away into the night. He took the stand and for the first time in Jim Crow history, he accused a white man of murder.
4. What magazine published the photos of Till's brutalized corpse?

Answer: Jet

The photos captivated Blacks all over America. Mamie Till-Mobley's decision to publish the images of her son's tortured body made Emmett Till a powerful symbol of racial violence in the South.
5. What happened to Till's murderers?

Answer: They were found "Not Guilty."

After the trial, the murderers proudly sold a detailed account of the murder to "Look" magazine. They never saw the inside of a jail cell.
6. What was Rosa Parks' job when she refused to give up her seat?

Answer: Secretary

She was secretary of the Montgomery Branch of the NAACP, but was on her way home from her other job as a seamstress.
7. How old was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when he was asked to lead the Montgomery Improvement Association?

Answer: 26

King was very young and was chosen because he was new to the community, had no baggage, and the city fathers hadn't had a chance to intimidate him. Time would prove that choice to be right beyond anyone's wildest dreams.
8. Complete the line: "And we are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs down like water and righteousness like ___________."

Answer: a mighty stream

In one of King's most famous speeches, on December 5, 1955, more than 5,000 people showed up at the Holt Street Baptist Church to hear King give the speech that laid out the plan for the Montgomery bus boycott and a new vision for American democracy, here is the climax of that speech:
"My friends, I want it to be known that we're going to work with grim and firm determination to gain justice on the buses in this city. And we are not wrong, we are not wrong in what we are doing. If we are wrong, then the Supreme Court of this Nation is wrong. If we are wrong, the Constitution of the United States is wrong. If we are wrong, God Almighty is wrong. If we are wrong, Jesus of Nazareth was merely a utopian dreamer and never came down to earth. If we are wrong, justice is a lie. And we are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs down like water and righteousness
like a mighty stream."
This was MLK's first great speech and gave notice to the world that a powerful new voice had arrived.
9. Who was the primary planner of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Answer: E.D. Nixon

Nixon had attempted several times to create a test case on Montgomery buses, but finally found the perfect person with Rosa Parks. He decided that a boycott was the way to make the desired change. He created a separate organization to lead the boycott and named it the Montgomery Improvement Association.

He also helped to name Martin Luther King as its leader. He created a system of alternative travel to get people around during the boycott, but very few people remember his name.
10. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?

Answer: One year, 15 days

After a one day test boycott, the blacks of Montgomery dug in for the long haul and set up an alternative system of travel. Black taxi drivers charged a fare equal to the cost to ride the bus, but when word of this reached city officials, the order went out to fine any cab driver who charged a rider less than 45 cents. Private motor vehicles were used in a kind of carpool, some people got around other ways like walking, cycling, riding mules or driving horse-drawn buggies.

Some people hitchhiked, but almost no blacks rode buses until they could sit where they chose to sit, and on December 20, 1956, victory was in hand.

The boycott of the buses had lasted for 381 days. This was the beginning of the direct action that changed the way blacks were allowed to live in this country.
Source: Author JoeSmow

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