Civil Rights Test

President Eisenhower’s enforcement of federal law/authority was tested by

• protect Mexican American rights

• end the bus boycott

• end segregation in the armed forces

• Arkansas’ refusal to integrate their high schools

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 specifically permitted federal examiners to enroll voters who had been denied suffrage by local officials and:

• Banned literacy tests

• Permitted voter registration at Motor Vehicle offices

• Permitted absentee ballots

• Banned protests within 50 feet of polling places

Huey Newton and Bobby Seale were leaders which organization

• SNCC

• Black Panthers

• SCLC

• Nation of Islam

"Freedom riders" in the early 1960s aimed at testing a recent Supreme Court decision which forbid

• the integration of public schools

• discrimination in the workplace

• literacy tests as a means for registering voters

• segregated interstate travel facilities

In order to end racial discrimination, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led civil rights protesters in

• racial disturbances

• black power demands

• violent actions

• nonviolent civil disobedience

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

• To establish a separate political state for African Americans

• To gain passage of an equal rights amendment to the Constitution

• To end discrimination and segregation based on race

• To end segregation based on gender

After the almost year long Montgomery bus boycott, the Supreme Court ruled in 1956 that

• the federal government had no role in segregation issues

• Alabama’s racial segregation law for buses was unconstitutional

• the police had used excessive force

• the boycott was unconstitutional

In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, states were told it was unconstitutional to

• build low cost housing

• raise minimum wage

• segregate schools

• segregate public facilities such as parks, theaters, restrooms, etc

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 specifically prohibited discrimination in

• immigration policy

• public accommodations/facilities

• professional sports

• private universities

Who was Stokely Carmichael?

• leader of SNCC, and soon advocated Black Power and African American pride

• was the first black student to be enrolled at the University of Mississippi

• was killed during freedom summer attempting to register voters

• took over for Malcolm X after he was assassinated