Rosa Parks Quiz

Rosa Parks was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress called “the first lady of civil rights”, and “the mother of the freedom movement”. On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake‘s order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. Parks’ act of defiance became an important symbol of the modern Civil Rights Movement and Parks became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders helping to launch him to national prominence in the civil rights movement.

Rosa Parks Quiz Questions

1. What was Rosa Parks’ original name?
a) Rosa Cuthbert Guy
b) Rosa Louise McCauley
c) Rose Fitzmaurice
d) Lily White

2. When was Rosa Parks born?
a) 4 February 1913
b) 24 June 1912
c) 14 July 1914
d) 17 November 1916

3. Where was Rosa Parks born?
a) Birmingham
b) Richmond
c) Tuskegee
d) Springfield

4. When was Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give her bus seat to a white man?
a) 22 January 1945
b) 26 April 1942
c) 8 August 1954
d) 1 December 1955

5. Who led the Montgomery bus boycott?
a) William Du Bois
b) Ida Bell Wells
c) Martin Luther King
d) Mary Ovington

6. When did the Montgomery bus boycott end?
a) 6 March 1960
b) 21 December 1956
c) 19 September 1958
d) 3 October 1959

7. Which organization established Rosa Parks Freedom Award?
a) Southern Christian Leadership Conference
b) Niagara Movement
c) Montgomery Improvement Association
d) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

8. When did Rosa Parks cofound Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development?
a) 1971
b) 1977
c) 1987
d) 1998

9. When did Rosa Parks die?
a) 5 January 2000
b) 9 April 1999
c) 26 August 1992
d) 24 October 2005

10. Where did Rosa Parks die?
a) Palm Springs
b) Detroit
c) Chicago
d) Olympia

Rosa Parks Quiz Questions and Answers

1. What was Rosa Parks’ original name?
b) Rosa Louise McCauley

2. When was Rosa Parks born?
a) 4 February 1913

3. Where was Rosa Parks born?
c) Tuskegee

4. When was Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give her bus seat to a white man?
d) 1 December 1955

5. Who led the Montgomery bus boycott?
c) Martin Luther King

6. When did the Montgomery bus boycott end?
b) 21 December 1956

7. Which organization established Rosa Parks Freedom Award?
a) Southern Christian Leadership Conference

8. When did Rosa Parks cofound Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development?
c) 1987

9. When did Rosa Parks die?
d) 24 October 2005

10. Where did Rosa Parks die?
b) Detroit

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Originally posted 2017-03-26 03:31:23.