With regard to its origins and organization, the Montgomery Bus Boycott
a. was orchestrated and organized by the NAACP.
b. stemmed from the arrest of Rosa Parks, though several other black women had been arrested for the same crime the same year.
c. was a secular movement which represented a break from earlier black protests in which churches had played central roles.
d. was the brainchild of Martin Luther King, Jr., who inspired several women to court arrest by defying the law to set the boycott in motion.
b. stemmed from the arrest of Rosa Parks, though several other black women had been arrested for the same crime the same year.
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A) was an acknowledgment that Catholicism was the official religion in France. B) expelled the Huguenots from France. C) recognized the rights of the Protestant minority. D) was a decision made out of political necessity. E) was an attempt to reduce religious violence in France.
In the daily life of Mughal India, the Muslim practice of barring women from associating with men outside the home was known as
a. sati. b. zamindar. c. purdah. d. raga. e. harem.
__________, one of the most well-known “conductors” on the Underground Railroad, was nicknamed “Black Moses”
a) Harriet Tubman b) Joanna Forten c) Harriet Stowe d) Sojourner Truth
A famous novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe rallied northern hostility toward one particular component of the Compromise of 1850, the
A. fugitive slave law, which allowed southerners to more easily reclaim their runaway slaves. B. re-drawing of the Texas boundary. C. provision that Mormon Utah could decide for itself whether to be slave or free. D. failure to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia.