Civil Rights Movement

A group of people with authority to create laws and public policy is known as a(n)

• Government

• Establishment

• Administration

• Representation

During the1950s, the main goal of the civil rights movement was to

• create separate African American economic and social institutions

• eliminate legal segregation from American life

• establish affirmative action programs to compensate for past wrongs

• form a new nation for African Americans

“On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.”

The quote above would most likely have been said by the leader of which of the following civil rights groups?

• Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee

• Committee Congress of Racial Equality

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• Black Panther

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed in an effort to correct

• racial and gender discrimination

• limitations on freedom of speech

• unfair immigration quotas

• segregation in the armed forces

Base your answer on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.

"…In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the ‘unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.’ It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked ‘insufficient funds.’… "

— Martin Luther King, Jr., August 28, 1963

The focus of this passage from Dr. King’s speech was his belief that

• civil rights for African Americans would always be a dream

• were guaranteed by the founders of this nation Americans

• Americans had become blind to racial differences

• violence was often necessary for the protection of civil liberties

Which statement shows that the civil rights movement of the 1960s made significant gains?

• Affirmative action programs are now universally accepted.

• Unemployment among African-Americans youths has significantly decreased

• The average salaries earned by women now equal the average salaries earned by men.

• Anti-discrimination laws have increased opportunities for

  minorities.

Base your answer to the question on the poster and on your knowledge of social studies.

This poster was used during the

• abolitionist movement

• woman’s suffrage movement

• civil rights movement

• environmental movement

Which statement most closely reflects the views of Martin Luther King, Jr.?

• All Americans have a right to equality. Any means, including violence, can be used to attain it.

• Unjust laws must be disobeyed and the consequences accepted peacefully.

• African Americans will never gain equality. We really have no choice but to have the two races separate.

• African Americans must be patient and aim first for economic advancement. Social and political equality will come later

The major goal of the civil rights movement of the 1960s was to

• establish a separate political state for African Americans

• get Martin Luther King Jr. elected as President

• end segregation based on race

• permit unlimited immigration to the United State

“You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is a legitimate concern...The answer is found in the fact that there are two types of laws: there are just and there are unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that an ‘unjust law is no law at all’.”

This statement best justifies the idea of

• acculturation

• checks and balances

• socialism

• civil disobedience