A Few Questions From The Book for 2/5/2019.

What was the purpose behind the 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi?

• to expand voter registration efforts

• to protest against a major news network

• to free Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. from jail

• to rally journalists to the southern United States

According to The Race Beat, _____ and _____ were born ten days apart. One came from the editorial pages of the Richmond News Leader on Nov. 21, 1955 and the other was ushered into the world on Dec. 1, 1955.

• massive and passive resistance

• Sit-Ins and Freedom Rides

• SNCC and CORE

• Citizen's Councils and Interposition

When the Secretary of the United States Army, Wilber Brucker, wanted an up-to-the-minute report on the 101st Airborne in Little Rock, an officer in the Pentagon suggested he _____.

• turn on a television set

• read the Arkansas Gazette

• call Harry Ashmore directly

• set up a military phone booth

After MLK was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, it became an embarrassment to Atlanta that a planned banquet may have a small turnout. When the president of ___ told business leaders that Chairman Woodruff thought "we ought to go to the dinner," there was a stampede to buy tickets to the event.

• Coca-Cola

• Delta Airlines

• Atlanta Braves

• Turner Broadcasting

The 381 day Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott organized by the Montgomery Improvement Association's leader, MLK Jr., was an example of

• Interposition

• Massive Resistance

• Passive Resistance

A strategy declared by Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd to unite southern white politicians and leaders to prevent public school desegregation after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954. Many schools, and even an entire school system, were shut down in 1958 and 1959 in attempts to block integration,

• Massive Resistance

• Passive Resistance

Following the Brown Ruling, generally speaking in the South, the term "Freedom of Choice" referred to a method of allowing each county to decide whether to comply with school integration or close its schools as a form of massive resistance. In Virginia, however, it referred to

• giving white students grants to attend schools in a nearby open district or in some cases a non-integrated school district.

• busing white students to all white schools essentially turning what was once a white school only into a school that was predominately black as a result of integration

In which chapter would a reader find "to show the faith of the enemy, whose enrollment would open the floodgates to massive integration, then intermarriage: Intermarriage in the South, where we are so evenly divided white and colored, means the end of both races as such, and the emergence of a tribe of mongrels."?

• Chapter 1 - An American Dilemma

• Chapter 11 - Little Rock Showdown

• Chapter 17 - Ole Miss

• Chapter 22 - Selma

What was it that placed Ross Barnett in a semi-coma during his campaign for governor of Mississippi in 1959?

• a stroke

• a horrific car crash

• an injury sustained from inadvertently walking into a plane propeller

• an injury sustained during a riot at Ole Miss. on the day Meredith showed up to integrate the campus

How did Pres. Kennedy and Attorney Gen. Robert Kennedy respond to the obstruction of James Meredith's enrollment at the Univ. of Miss's Ole Miss campus in Oxford, Mississippi?

• They agreed to ignore the issue in hopes things would simmer down.

• They sent federal troops to the campus to maintain order.

• They ordered the school be shut down for the remainder of the year.

• They ordered the creation of a segregated campus for blacks only.