SSUSH21d Civil Rights Groups

SSUSH21d Civil Rights Groups

Multiple Choice

The major goal of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s was to:

• Establish a separate political state for African Americans

• End segregation based on race

• Gain passage of equal rights amendment to the Constitution

• A. Permit unlimited immigration to the United States

Multiple Choice

In the 1960s, bus boycotts, lunch counter sit-ins, and freedom rides were organized attempts to achieve:

• Integration

• Black separatism

• Segregation

• Cultural diffusion

Multiple Choice

What was one result of the boycott called for in the poster above?

• Sale of lettuce and grapes increased

• Power of large land owners over their laborers grew

• Public awareness and support for the farmworkers increased

• Federal troops were sent to stop violence on the farms

Multiple Choice

“...there are two types of laws: There are just laws and there are unjust laws. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.:

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

The above statement is justification of the concept of:

• Cultural pluralism

• Ethnic assimilation

• Civil disobedience

• Reverse discrimination

Multiple Choice

Which statement most closely reflects the views of Martin Luther King Jr.?

• All Americans have a right to equality. Any means, including violence, can be used to attain it.

• Unjust laws must be disobeyed, and the consequences accepted peacefully

• African Americans will never gain equality. We really have no choice by have the two races separate.

• African Americans must be patient and aim first for economic advancement. Social and political equality will come later.