Question

12. The Montgomery bus boycott and Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins are examples of

(A) enforcement of the Justice Department of the Brown decision
(B) passive protests against segregation coming from the African American community
(C) court initiated efforts to end racial discrimination
(D) failure of non-violent direct action of the NAACP

Answer 1

B

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

B

Step-by-step explanation:

A yearlong boycott beginning in 1955 in which blacks avoided city transportation in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest the arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. Martin Luther King Jr. became a national figure when he took charge of the boycott and protest. The Supreme Court ended the boycott the following year, forcing the city of Montgomery to desegregate public transportation.