Civil Rights #1

The movements led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ceasar Chavez were similar in that both -

• supported attempts to overthrow the established government

• used civil disobedience to bring about social change

• boycotted agricultural crops

• were elected to national political office

What did the Women's Liberation Movement see as its major goal in the 1960s?

• obtaining the right to vote for women

• guaranteeing women equal pay for equal work

• enabling women to stay at home as well as work

• laws that would allow women to own property

What as the major goal of the American Indian Movement (AIM)?

• to gain U.S. citizenship and representation in Congress

• to relocate American Indians to ruban areas

• to obtain greater understanding of the American-Indian point of view

• to end segregation of American Indians in public places

Which law helped women athletes obtain greater support in American high schools and universities?

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act

• Twenty-sixth Amendment

• Voting Rights Act of 1964

As a result of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Hernandez v. Texas, a Mexican American could not be -

• stopped from voting in a Presidential election

• made to pay an unreasonable bail to be released from jail

• denied an education in an all-white school

• tried by a jury from which Mexican Americans had been systematically excluded

What was the major goal fo the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s?

• to end racial segregation

• to reduce prejudice against Mexican_American immigrants

• to reform prison conditions

• to improve living conditions for Native American Indians