Civil Rights Review

During the 1960s in the US, leaders of the civil rights movement made the greatest progress toward their goals by

• Supporting the armed revolution

• Getting help from foreign countries

• Encouraging a policy of apartheid

• Conducting sit-ins and marches

Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech, “I have a dream,” had a great effect on the emotions of many Americans because

• The United States was deeply divided by the war in Vietnam

• Many Americans were deprived of their civil rights

• Attention was focused on the demand of 18-year-old citizens to get the right to vote

• A violent revolution was encouraged

“I have a dream that one day...the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood…”

This statement best expresses the idea of

• Scarcity

• Civil disobedience

• Economic advancement

• Equality

Which statement is MOST valid concerning the experience of African Americans in the United States?

• African Americans have achieved some progress in obtaining political and social equality

• Few African Americans have experienced discrimination

• No strong leaders have emerged in the struggle for African American equality

• The African American experience has nearly always been written about with understanding and sympathy

Which belief about racial issues did Martin Luther King, Jr. hold?

• It is legal to have separate schools for blacks and whites

• White southern leaders could be trusted to obey decisions of the Supreme Court

• Each state should be allowed to determine its own racial policies

• State laws that discriminated against blacks should be peacefully disobeyed

Which approach was supported by Martin Luther King Jr., as the best way to achieve equality for African Americans?

• The use of violence, if necessary, to win equal rights

• Patience while the legislatures changed the laws

• The use of civil disobedience and nonviolence

• Creation of a separate state for African Americans

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s philosophy of protest stressed

• massive protest in the streets

• acceptance of discrimination until the courts could act

• intensive, radical action

• nonviolent, passive resistance