Ch 13: The Civil Rights Movement Review

Who led the Black Power Movement and argued African Americans should work for social and political independence?

• Malcolm X

• MLK JR

• Shirley Chisholm

• Rosa Parks

Where did Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his famous "I have a Dream" speech?

• at Voting Rights March, Selma, Alabama

• at the March on Washington in front of the Lincoln Memorial

• from a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama

Who founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?

• Thurgood Marshall

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King Jr

• Jo Ann Robinson

What did President Johnson call his program of domestic reforms?

• New Deal

• Fair Deal

• New Frontier

• Great Society

Why was the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) created?

• To continue the peaceful struggle for civil rights

• to protest the arrest of Rosa Parks

• to protect the Little Rock Nine at Central High school

What ended when the Supreme Court ruled that segregation on public transportation was illegal?

• Sit-ins

• Freedom Rides

• The Montgomery Bus Boycott

What did Betty Friedan found in 1966 that turned her into a leader of the modern women's rights movement?

• SNCC

• American Indian Movement (Aim)

• National Organization for Women (NOW)

Who founded the Black Power Movement?

• Stokley Carmichael

• Martin Luther King, Jr

• Malcolm X

• Rosa Parks

What prevented the Little Rock Nine from integrating Central High School?

• Congress banned forced desegregation of schools

• President Eisenhower ordered the students to wait till things calmed down.

• White students organized a sit-in protest and prevented class meetings

• Arkansas governor Orval Faubus used National Guard troops to block the entrance of the school

What was repeatedly disrupted by white mobs?

• Freedom Rides

• Untied Farm Workers