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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Bull Connor's Birmingham.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As a first step of the meetings with the white Senior Citizens Committee, some of the merchants agreed to remove what?
(a) The jim-crow signs from their stores.
(b) Signs with only white people on them.
(c) The Bull Conner signs from their stores.
(d) The food and drinks that the Negro community didn't like.

2. During the time of slavery, why would a Negro cook agree with their white owners instead of defending themselves?
(a) Because they would not get to see their family.
(b) Because they would be sold to another owner.
(c) Because they would lose their job.
(d) Because they wouldn't be able to live in the master's house.

3. In May of 1962, where was the board meeting of the S.C.L.C. held?
(a) Chattanooga.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) New York City.
(d) Birmingham.

4. During the time of slavery, for what purpose were young Negro girls sold and used?
(a) As cooks.
(b) As breeders.
(c) As maids.
(d) As wives.

5. At the rate that integration of schools was going, what year would the integration of schools be a reality?
(a) 1982.
(b) 2054.
(c) 1995.
(d) 2011.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who "ruled" Birmingham with terror and racist rule?

2. At the closing days of the Birmingham campaign, Negro children would run up to policemen asking them what?

3. What does MLK say are the teachers for human beings?

4. After MLK was stabbed in the department store, what hospital was he rushed to?

5. During the Montgomery bus boycott what else were the Negros doing besides boycotting buses?

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