Unit 3 Test: Trauma at Home and Abroad

Why did civil rights become even more important to African Americans following World War II ?

• Jim Crow laws kept blacks from full participation in American life despite their service during the war.

• Separate but equal schools worked well in some places, but not in others.

• Blacks were receiving equal pay for their work so they also wanted equality in political life and other areas.

What is one reason blacks began to expect more civil rights after World War II?

• Franklin D. Roosevelt had desegregated the military during the war.

• Blacks had gained confidence to compete in a white-dominated society

• Blacks had experienced considerable racial equality in the armed forces.

Which civil rights advocate became a Supreme Court justice?

• Medgar Evers

• James Meredith

• Thurgood Marshall

How did state legislatures in the South react to the Brown v. Board of Education ruling?

• They enacted laws to speed up the process of desegregation in state school districts.

• They enacted laws and policies to block the integration of public schools.

• They did nothing.

What was a result of the Montgomery bus boycott?

• The Montgomery Bus Company refused to segregate and laid off many of its drivers.

• The Supreme Court struck down Alabama’s requirement of segregation on buses.

• The boycott showed that civil rights for African Americans could be easily won.

Why did the Kennedy administration begin to act on civil rights after Project C in Birmingham, Alabama?

• President Kennedy needed congressional support for his legislative agenda.

• The Supreme Court ordered the executive branch to protect civil rights.

• The violence against protestors had been televised nationally.

What did Martin Luther King, Jr., have to say about laws and justice in his Letter from Birmingham Jail?

• It is never acceptable to break the law.

• Blacks should break the law to call attention to injustice.

• It is morally acceptable to break an unjust law.

Where did Martin Luther King, Jr., deliver his now famous “I Have a Dream” speech?

• Birmingham, Alabama

• Selma, Alabama

• Washington, D.C.

What did the growing popularity of Malcolm X, Black Power, and the Black Panthers show about the civil rights movement by 1965?

• that it had failed to bring about any changes in the lives of African Americans

• that many people were willing to participate in demonstrations

• that many African Americans had become impatient with King’s cautious approach

Which event gave President Johnson the support he needed to push for passage of the Voting Rights Act?

• Montgomery bus boycott

• March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

• “Bloody Sunday” in Selma