USH Civil Rights & Protest Movements

In Little Rock, Arkansas, the governor tried to prevent African American students from entering a white high school by

• deploying the National Guard
• closing the school
• hiring the Ku Klux Klan
• redrawing the school district

How did the separate but equal doctrine established by Plessy v. Ferguson make the struggle for civil rights more difficult

• It ordered federal laws requiring segregation
• it declared segregation to be constitutional
• It required segregation in public schools
• It overturned laws challenging segregation in public places

In the historical development of civil rights, which amendment after the Civil War first guaranteed black men the right to vote

• 13
• 14
• 15
• 19

How did Cesar Chavez draw attention to the need for better wages and improved working conditions for farmworkers in the 1960's

• He founded a new political party that focused on farmworkers rights
• He created the League of United Latin American citizens to fight discrimination
• He encouraged violent protests by migrant farm laborers against growers
• He organized a national boycott of table grapes and held a hunger strike

What role did Rosa Parks play in the civil rights movement

• She took part in a sit in at a whites only lunch counter to protest segregation
• She challenged segregation by refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person
• She was one of the Little Rock Nine who tried to integrate a high school
• She organized the Freedom Riders who rode interstate buses in the South

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown v. Board of Education ended racial segregation

• on buses
• in public schools
• in private clubs
• on trains

Although the counterculture of the 1960s did not achieve its utopian ideals, it had a lasting influence on

• living arrangements in the United States
• middle-class, white-collar values
• practices and rules at large universities
• fashion and music in the United States

author of The Feminine Mystique and a founder of the National Organization for Women

• Gloria Steinem
• Betty Friedan
• Phyllis Shafley