Unit 8 - Civil Rights Movement

Unit 8 - Civil Rights Movement

Multiple Choice

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most comprehensive and far-reaching civil rights bill ever passed by the United

States Congress. All of the following were provisions of the bill designed to protect and/or further the rights and opportunities of African Americans and other minority groups with the exception of

• Segregation illegal in most places of public accommodation.

• Gave citizens of all races nationalities equal access to facilities (i.e. restaurants, parks, theaters, etc.).

• Gave Congress more power to bring lawsuits to force school desegregation.

• required private employers to end discrimination in the workplace.

Multiple Choice

Students staged a sit-in in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1959 to protest

• poverty in the South.

• cutbacks in student aid.

• segregation of public facilities.

• the war in Vietnam.

Multiple Choice

What did Martin Luther King, Jr. believe in/advocate for as the best way to end segregation?

• Through aggressive self-defense and violence (if necessary) in order for African Americans should control the social, political, and economic direction of their struggle for equal rights

• Non-violent passive resistance would eventually gain public support & force the Federal government to end segregation.

• Only through the use of open revolution can an oppressed group achieve equal rights

• Through the use of manipulation, intimidation and political bribery of government politicians

Multiple Choice

Many historians consider this event (that occurred in 1955) as the first visible act of “grass-roots”/public protest of the modern Civil Rights Movement.

• The Montgomery Bus Boycott

• The Freedom Riders

• Watts Riots

• Birmingham Protests

Multiple Choice

During the late 1950s/early 1960s, sit-in demonstrations were first effectively used by

• College students working with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

• Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

• Huey Newton and the Black Panthers

• Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam

Multiple Choice

During the late 1950s/early 1960s, sit-in demonstrations were first effectively used by

• College students working with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

• Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

• Huey Newton and the Black Panthers

• Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam