Gays and Civil Rights (Bayard Rustin)

Question or Hint Answer or Word
  1. What peaceful protest did he organize and NOT get credit for? March on Washington (wrong answers: I Had a Dream, Selma March, The Birmingham campaign)
  2. Who was one of the activists that Bayard Rustin worked with during the civil rights movement? Martin Luther King jr (wrong answers: Malcolm x, Rosa Park, James Baldwin , Rosa)
  3. In 1944, Rustin was jailed for being a conscientious objector to: World War ll (wrong answers: World War ll, Housing, Racism , Segregation)
  4. In 1948, Rustin traveled to learn about peaceful resistance in: India (wrong answers: Alabama, Thailand, India, Kenya)
  5. Rustin did not fit some people’s image of a civil rights leader because of his: Homosexuality (wrong answers: Homosexuality, Height, Movement, Opinions)
  6. Barack Obama posthumously awarded Rustin this award 50 years after the March on Washington: Presidential Medal of Freedom (wrong answers: A national holiday, Gold Star, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Purple Heart)

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