Chapter 25 Test

Despite the passage of several civil rights laws in the 1950s and 1960s, ____________________—prejudice or discrimination toward people because of their race—was still common in American society

• Manifesto

• poverty

• racism

• bias

In 1956 a group of 101 Southern members of Congress signed the Southern ____________________, denouncing the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education as a "clear abuse of judicial power."

• racism

• poverty

• bias

• maifesto

After his pilgrimage to Makkah, ____________________ concluded that an integrated society was possible.

• Martin Luther King Jr

• Medgar Evers

• Malcolm X

• Al Sharpton

After Malcolm X broke with the ____________________ of Islam, he continued to criticize the organization

and was eventually killed by some of its members.

• Country

• Nation

• Religion

• Beliefs

When first established, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference set out to end segregation and encourage African Americans to

• Boycott Goods

• register to vote

• fight back with violence

• March to Washington DC

The "X" in Malcolm X's name stood as a symbol for the family name of his ____________________ ancestors who had been enslaved

• African

• NAACP

• CORE

• SNNC

African American leaders formed the Montgomery Improvement Association to run the bus boycott and elected a pastor named Dr. Martin Luther ____________________, Jr., to lead the new organization

• Evers

• Malcolm

• King

• Sharpton

In the 1950s and 1960s, _______________ trapped many African Americans in inner cities

• racism

• poverty

• discrimination

• Manifesto

The _________________________ traveled into the South by bus to test compliance with laws outlawing segregation in interstate bus service

• Ku Klux Klan

• NAACP

• Freedom Riders

• Freedom Protesters

Although the civil rights movement did not lead to large protests until the 1950s, the ____________________ had supported court cases intended to overturn segregation since its founding in 1909. [Use the abbreviation for the organization's name.]

• CORE

• SNNC

• NAACP

• NOW