Question

Match the location with its civil rights event.

1. Birmingham-----------------Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech
2. Washington, D.C.-------- students tried to integrate a school
3. Selma ---------------------Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat
4. Watts ---------------------terrible riots took place here in 1965
5. Little Rock --------------police attacked peaceful marchers outside this city
6. Montgomery --------------demonstrations, boycotts, and sit-ins

Answer 1

Each of the civil rights events listed took place in the following locations:

• Birmingham: demonstrations, boycotts, and sit-ins. All these activities integrated the so-called Birmingham Campaign, as it was one of the most segregated cities in the US.
• Washington D.C. : Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech delivered during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963 in front of 250,000 supporters of the Civil Rights Movement. It constituted a direct claim for the end of racism
• Selma: police attacked peaceful marchers outside this city. The march which was peaceful in the beginning is nowadays known as the Bloody Sunday.
• Watts: terrible riots took place here in 1965. A roadside incident escalated to a conflict with police and ended up causing six days of unrest.
• Little Rock: students tried to integrate a school. This conflict required the involvement of the Supreme Court that issued the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision that declared segregated schools to be unconstitutional.
• Montgomery: Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the bus in 1956 and it gave rise to the Montgomery bus boycott.