Topic 8.6

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Why were American suburbs in the 1950s so uniformly segregated?

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Residents, brokers, and realtors made sure contracts and mortgages barred sales to minorities.

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Which of the following is true about the Montgomery bus boycott? It was sparked when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white rider., Ultimately the boycott did not achieve the desegregation of public transportation., The lawsuit propelled Thurgood Marshall into the national spotlight as a civil rights litigator., This failed effort marked a severe setback for the civil rights movement in Alabama.

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It was sparked when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white
rider.

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What inspiration did Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gain from the writings of Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi and 19th century Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau?

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the strategy of nonviolent civil disobedience

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What was the Southern Manifesto?

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a declaration that southern states would not honor the Supreme Court’s Brown decision

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Which of the following is NOT true about the 1960 sit-in at the Woolworth’s department store in Greensboro, North Carolina?
Options:
It sparked similar demonstrations throughout the South.
It ended with the immediate desegregation of Woolworth’s lunch counters
It was organized by John Lewis and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee or SNCC
protesters were attacked by white customers and counter protesters

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It ended with the immediate desegregation of Woolworth’s lunch counters

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Why did many of the African-American civil rights protesters who marched in June 1963 in more than 186 cities hope to be arrested?

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One point of the protests was to get arrested and publicize the punitive nature of southern Jim Crow justice.

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What was the Double V campaign during World War 2?

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This was an effort to end racial discrimination in the U.S. and defeat the Nazis in Europe.

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The Supreme Court case that ruled racially segregated school systems were inherently unequal was..

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Brown v Board of Ed

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In an effort to overturn Jim Crow laws and segregated systems, African Americans used the following method: economic boycotts, legal attacks on the underpinnings of segregation in the courts, mobilization of black churches on behalf of black rights.

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all of these

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At first, John F Kennedy moved very slowly in the area of racial justice because he needed the support of southern democratic legislators to pass his economic and social legislation aimed at helping the poor.

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needed the support of southern democratic legislators to pass his economic and social legislation aimed at helping the poor