Question 1

What group began to come to the forefront of the civil rights movement beginning in 1960?

Accepted Answer

A)  older blacks 
B)  very poor agricultural workers 
C)  college students 
D)  northern whites 
A)  older blacks 
B)  very poor agricultural workers 
C)  college students 
D)  northern whites C

Question 2

What did the Voting Rights Act not do?

Accepted Answer

A)  It outlawed educational requirements for voting in certain areas. 
B)  It allowed the federal government to supervise voter registration. 
C)  It greatly increased black political participation in the South. 
D)  It created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. 
A)  It outlawed educational requirements for voting in certain areas. 
B)  It allowed the federal government to supervise voter registration. 
C)  It greatly increased black political participation in the South. 
D)  It created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. D

Question 3

What is true about school desegregation under Brown by 1960?

Accepted Answer

A)  About 75% of all school systems had been desegregated. 
B)  Only 17 school systems had been desegregated. 
C)  All but a few schools in Alabama and Mississippi had been desegregated. 
D)  No school systems were desegregated under Brown at that time. 
A)  About 75% of all school systems had been desegregated. 
B)  Only 17 school systems had been desegregated. 
C)  All but a few schools in Alabama and Mississippi had been desegregated. 
D)  No school systems were desegregated under Brown at that time. B

Question 4

How did Orville Faubus react to the Brown decision?

Accepted Answer

A)  He completely accepted it. Arkansas was one of the few states to allow peaceful segregation. 
B)  He tried to keep blacks from attending the local high school by posting the National Guard there, and closing the schools down. 
C)  He basically did nothing, and was quickly voted out of office by a white supremacist mob. 
D)  Faubus attempted to build a new school for blacks to keep them from integrating. 
A)  He completely accepted it. Arkansas was one of the few states to allow peaceful segregation. 
B)  He tried to keep blacks from attending the local high school by posting the National Guard there, and closing the schools down. 
C)  He basically did nothing, and was quickly voted out of office by a white supremacist mob. 
D)  Faubus attempted to build a new school for blacks to keep them from integrating.

Question 5

Which of the following groups was not a member of COFO?

Accepted Answer

A)  SNCC 
B)  SRC 
C)  SCLC 
D)  NAACP 
A)  SNCC 
B)  SRC 
C)  SCLC 
D)  NAACP

Question 6

What two dramatic events set the stage for larger changes in the civil rights movement?

Accepted Answer

A)  the Albany Movement and the Birmingham March 
B)  the Albany Movement and King's assassination 
C)  Johnson's election to the presidency and the Vietnam War 
D)  Kennedy's assassination and the bombing of the 16ᵗʰ Street Baptist Church in Birmingham 
A)  the Albany Movement and the Birmingham March 
B)  the Albany Movement and King's assassination 
C)  Johnson's election to the presidency and the Vietnam War 
D)  Kennedy's assassination and the bombing of the 16ᵗʰ Street Baptist Church in Birmingham

Question 7

How did many local residents of the southern towns support the students' efforts?

Accepted Answer

A)  Southerners never supported black efforts. 
B)  Many southerners moved North at this time as a protest against the South. 
C)  They supported them through economic boycotts of offending businesses. 
D)  They supported them by donating substantial amounts of money to black colleges. 
A)  Southerners never supported black efforts. 
B)  Many southerners moved North at this time as a protest against the South. 
C)  They supported them through economic boycotts of offending businesses. 
D)  They supported them by donating substantial amounts of money to black colleges.

Question 8

What effect did the lynching of Emmett Till have on young black Americans?

Accepted Answer

A)  It frightened many. Young people would have only a small role in the civil rights movement because of their fear. 
B)  It made many young black men turn to violence, crime, and terrorism. 
C)  Because Till had been a war hero, many young blacks enlisted in the army. 
D)  It infuriated many of them, and caused them to fight it ever happening again. 
A)  It frightened many. Young people would have only a small role in the civil rights movement because of their fear. 
B)  It made many young black men turn to violence, crime, and terrorism. 
C)  Because Till had been a war hero, many young blacks enlisted in the army. 
D)  It infuriated many of them, and caused them to fight it ever happening again.

Question 9

What happened to civil rights protesters as they attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the March 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery?

Accepted Answer

A)  They were allowed to cross peacefully, a great achievement for King and the movement. 
B)  They were highly criticized by most middle-class blacks. 
C)  The police tear-gassed and beat the demonstrators, all of which was captured on television. 
D)  They received notice of the passage of the Civil Rights Act, and the protest march became a great celebration. 
A)  They were allowed to cross peacefully, a great achievement for King and the movement. 
B)  They were highly criticized by most middle-class blacks. 
C)  The police tear-gassed and beat the demonstrators, all of which was captured on television. 
D)  They received notice of the passage of the Civil Rights Act, and the protest march became a great celebration.

Question 10

What was "Freedom Summer"?

Accepted Answer

A)  an attempt by students to ride integrated buses through the South 
B)  an attempt by Martin Luther King to bring attention to segregation 
C)  an SNCC project designed to bring voting rights to people in Mississippi 
D)  an attempt by whites in the South to free themselves of meddlesome civil rights workers 
A)  an attempt by students to ride integrated buses through the South 
B)  an attempt by Martin Luther King to bring attention to segregation 
C)  an SNCC project designed to bring voting rights to people in Mississippi 
D)  an attempt by whites in the South to free themselves of meddlesome civil rights workers

Question 11

What did King and the SCLC finally do to provoke "Bull" Connor to violence in Birmingham?

Accepted Answer

A)  They resorted to violence themselves. 
B)  They decided to use children in the protest marches. 
C)  They turned out in great numbers to march. 
D)  The protesters appeared at a KKK rally. 
A)  They resorted to violence themselves. 
B)  They decided to use children in the protest marches. 
C)  They turned out in great numbers to march. 
D)  The protesters appeared at a KKK rally.

Question 12

Who was the "most dangerous man in America," at one point, according to J. Edgar Hoover?

Accepted Answer

A)  Bayard Rustin 
B)  Martin Luther King Jr. 
C)  W. E. B. Du Bois 
D)  Marcus Garvey 
A)  Bayard Rustin 
B)  Martin Luther King Jr. 
C)  W. E. B. Du Bois 
D)  Marcus Garvey

Question 13

Which state was generally seen as the symbolic center of racism and violence in 1964?

Accepted Answer

A)  Mississippi 
B)  Georgia 
C)  Florida 
D)  Tennessee 
A)  Mississippi 
B)  Georgia 
C)  Florida 
D)  Tennessee

Question 14

What steps did Kennedy take in civil rights areas?

Accepted Answer

A)  He appointed numerous blacks to important administrative positions. 
B)  He allowed his brother to put force into the Justice Department's civil rights litigation. 
C)  He required government agencies to stop discrimination in federally supported housing. 
D)  He eliminated segregation in the military. 
A)  He appointed numerous blacks to important administrative positions. 
B)  He allowed his brother to put force into the Justice Department's civil rights litigation. 
C)  He required government agencies to stop discrimination in federally supported housing. 
D)  He eliminated segregation in the military.

Question 15

What adult proved very influential in the formation of SNCC?

Accepted Answer

A)  Martin Luther King Jr. 
B)  Ella Baker 
C)  Bayard Rustin 
D)  Jackie Robinson 
A)  Martin Luther King Jr. 
B)  Ella Baker 
C)  Bayard Rustin 
D)  Jackie Robinson

Question 16

What provoked whites in Money, Mississippi to lynch Emmett Till?

Accepted Answer

A)  It was a breach of social etiquette - the boy called a white woman "Baby." 
B)  Till raped a white woman. 
C)  Till was married to a white woman, and had several children in the North with her. When he and his family moved into the South, they were all lynched. 
D)  Till attempted to register to vote. 
A)  It was a breach of social etiquette - the boy called a white woman "Baby." 
B)  Till raped a white woman. 
C)  Till was married to a white woman, and had several children in the North with her. When he and his family moved into the South, they were all lynched. 
D)  Till attempted to register to vote.

Question 17

Which of the following is true about the Civil Rights Act of 1957?

Accepted Answer

A)  The act outlawed poll taxes and literacy tests. 
B)  The act created a commission to study infringements on black voting. 
C)  The act provided an enforcement mechanism for school systems that refused to integrate. 
D)  The act outlawed all discrimination in employment. 
A)  The act outlawed poll taxes and literacy tests. 
B)  The act created a commission to study infringements on black voting. 
C)  The act provided an enforcement mechanism for school systems that refused to integrate. 
D)  The act outlawed all discrimination in employment.

Question 18

How do most white Americans view the 1950s?

Accepted Answer

A)  as a difficult time of repression and race violence 
B)  as a time of stable families, great prosperity, and few troubles 
C)  as a time of great musical developments by blacks 
D)  as a frightening time of worries about nuclear holocaust 
A)  as a difficult time of repression and race violence 
B)  as a time of stable families, great prosperity, and few troubles 
C)  as a time of great musical developments by blacks 
D)  as a frightening time of worries about nuclear holocaust

Question 19

What was not a goal of the SCLC?

Accepted Answer

A)  training black activists in nonviolent protest 
B)  helping to get voting rights for blacks 
C)  raising money for efforts across the country 
D)  working to spread the ideas of all religions 
A)  training black activists in nonviolent protest 
B)  helping to get voting rights for blacks 
C)  raising money for efforts across the country 
D)  working to spread the ideas of all religions

Question 20

What did the Supreme Court decide in Sweatt v. Painter?

Accepted Answer

A)  Blacks had no right to be admitted to white law schools if the school had a separate facility of any kind. 
B)  Equality in educational facilities included a lot of intangibles. The justices were basically saying that Sweatt had to be admitted to the main law school, not simply give space for him in the basement of the university. 
C)  Elementary education should not be segregated, as it had a negative effect on young schoolchildren and promoted racism. 
D)  The NAACP had no right to fund the legal education of black students at white schools. 
A)  Blacks had no right to be admitted to white law schools if the school had a separate facility of any kind. 
B)  Equality in educational facilities included a lot of intangibles. The justices were basically saying that Sweatt had to be admitted to the main law school, not simply give space for him in the basement of the university. 
C)  Elementary education should not be segregated, as it had a negative effect on young schoolchildren and promoted racism. 
D)  The NAACP had no right to fund the legal education of black students at white schools.

Exam 21: The Freedom Movement

What group began to come to the forefront of the civil rights movement beginning in 1960?

What did the Voting Rights Act not do?

What is true about school desegregation under Brown by 1960?

How did Orville Faubus react to the Brown decision?

Which of the following groups was not a member of COFO?

What two dramatic events set the stage for larger changes in the civil rights movement?

How did many local residents of the southern towns support the students' efforts?

What effect did the lynching of Emmett Till have on young black Americans?

What happened to civil rights protesters as they attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the March 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery?

What was "Freedom Summer"?

What did King and the SCLC finally do to provoke "Bull" Connor to violence in Birmingham?

Who was the "most dangerous man in America," at one point, according to J. Edgar Hoover?

Which state was generally seen as the symbolic center of racism and violence in 1964?

What steps did Kennedy take in civil rights areas?

What adult proved very influential in the formation of SNCC?

What provoked whites in Money, Mississippi to lynch Emmett Till?

Which of the following is true about the Civil Rights Act of 1957?

How do most white Americans view the 1950s?

What was not a goal of the SCLC?

What did the Supreme Court decide in Sweatt v. Painter?

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