The Struggle for Civil Rights 1
The Equal Pay Act aimed to benefit which group the most...
A) Mexican Americans
B) Veterans
C) Women
D) African Americans
The integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, followed which landmark Supreme Court case?
A) Tinker v Des Moines
B) Brown v Board of Education
C) Plessy v Ferguson
D) Sweatt v Painter
Lunch counter "sit-ins" were meant to...
A) antagonize restaurant owners and patrons
B) provoke police intervention
C) draw attention to segregation and challenge the law
D) bring racism to the public's attention
"When you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six year old daughter, why she can't go to the public amusement park, that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes, when she is told that Funland is closed to colored children...Then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait."
MLK Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963
In the excerpt from this letter, King is arguing that...
A) segregation must end immediately
B) nonviolent resistance is the only path to racial equality
C) in most cases "separate" is far from being "equal"
D) segregation will not go away on it's own
Which of the following is proof that the Civil Rights Movement was influencing government?
A) Martin Luther King Jr. established the "Poor People's" campaign
B) Parts of the voting right act of 1965 are still in effect
C) Lester Maddox was elected governor of Georgia
D) Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the Supreme Court
"I heard all of this screaming and...somebody yelled, 'Oh God, they're killing us!'...And I looked and I saw the troopers charging us...swinging their arms and throwing canisters of tear gas...Some of them had clubs and others had ropes and whips...It was like a nightmare...I just knew then that I was going to die."
-Sheyann Webb
Sheyann is recalling a campaign to enact voting legislation, that resulted in a conflict on a bridge in...
A) Washington D.C.
B) Selma, AL
C) Little Rock, AR
D) Greenwood, MS
The violence committed against nonviolent Freedom Riders forced...
A) the desegregation of schools
B) laws against workplace discrimination
C) Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act
D) the desegregation of interstate transportation
"...We will never communicate, talking one language and he's talking another language. He's talking the language of violence...Let's learn his language. If his language is with a shotgun, get a shotgun. If he only understands the language of a rifle, get a rifle. If he only understands the language of a rope, get a rope. But don't waste time talking the wrong language to a man, if you really want to communicate with him. Speak his language.
-Malcolm X, speech at Harlem rally, 1964
In this speech, Malcolm X explains his disagreement with...
A) Martin Luther King's style of protest
B) acts of violence in urban areas
C) the Civil Rights Act of 1964
D) affirmative action
The decision of Tinker v. Des Moines (1969), in which high school students sued after being suspended for wearing black armbands , in protest of the Vietnam war, further defined...
A) the definition of cruel and unusual punishment under the 8th Amendment
B) free speech in a publicly funded institution, under the 1st Amendment
C) the right to due process of law under the 5th Amendment
D) what constitutes the freedom of assembly under the 1st Amendment
"It is important that the reasons for my actions be understood by all our citizens...A foundation of our American way of life is our national respect for law."
-President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957
Which action was Eisenhower discussing in this address?
A) calling the national guard to desegregate the University of Mississippi
B) vetoing laws that would have made lynching a federal crime
C) sending federal troops to Little Rock
D) signing the Civil Rights Act of 1957