Civil Rights

What led to the decline of SNCC membership and collapse of the group in the early 1970s?

• Its leaders were elected to national office.

• The group's leadership took on increasingly radical and shocking positions

• Law enforcement authorities often murdered SNCC members

• All of the group's goals had been achieved

"I ain't going to jail no more" was part of a rallying cry for which of the following movements?

• Black Power

• nonviolent resistance

• the Freedom Rides

• Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

The success of the sit-ins throughout the South led to the formation of which of the following

• CORE

• NAACP

• NOW

• SNCC

Cause: ______________________

Effect: 24th Amendment Passed

• Most southern schools remained segregated

• Poll taxes used to keep many African Americans from voting

• No black delegates were seated at the Democratic National Convention in 1964

• Urban riots spread nationwide

Which organization was formed as a result of the successful Montgomery Buss Boycott

• NAACP

• CORE

• SNCC

• SCLC

Under whose leadership did SNCC abandon the philosophy of nonviolence?

• John Lewis

• Stokley Carmichael

• Malcolm X

• Martin Luther King Jr.

Which lawyer worked with the NAACP on the Brown vs. Board of Education case?

• Rosa Parks

• James Farmer

• Jackie Robinson

• Thurgood Marshall

Which of the following organizations was dedicated to the practice of nonviolent protest?

• KKK

• CORE

• Black Panthers

• Black Muslims

Public universities in Georgia, Mississippi, and Arkansas were only integrated after

• the Supreme Court ruled segregated colleges were inherently unequal

• SNCC staged sit-ins on public university campuses throughout the South

• the SCLC riveted national attention on the violence that accompanied the enrollment of black students

• federal courts ordered states to integrate their higher education facilities

In which of the following states did volunteers find it most difficult to register African Americans to vote?

• Arkansas

• Florida

• Georgia

• Mississippi