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The Girl Who Dared Vocabulary

Quiz by Shelby Liebler-Kukuk

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  • Q1
    On February 1, 1960, four college students entered a Woolworth department store in Greensboro, North Carolina. As a form of __________, the young black men sat down at Woolworth’s “whites only” lunch counter and ordered coffee.
    injustices
    protest
    30s
  • Q2
    At the time, this sort of _____________—refusing to serve people because of the color of their skin—was common and legal.
    discrimination
    strike
    30s
  • Q3
    The young men had been inspired by other activists’ nonviolent actions in the fight for ___________________.
    civil rights
    discrimination
    30s
  • Q4
    They decided to hold a sit-down strike to protest Woolworth’s practice of ________________.
    civil rights
    segregation
    30s
  • Q5
    The store’s staff refused to serve the young men. The manager asked them to leave, but the students were determined to take a stand against___________. They stayed seated at the counter until the store closed and then returned the next day—and the next, and again for many days after that.
    strikes
    injustice
    30s
  • Q6
    As time passed, hundreds of other protesters joined them. Meanwhile, new sit-down strikes were started at various stores, restaurants, and other public places across the South. As a result, Woolworth and other restaurants began to ____________ their stores later that year.
    negotiate
    intergrate
    30s

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