Civil Rights and Social Justice

What is the difference between De jure segregation and De facto segregation?

• De facto segregation is segregation by the law and de jure is segregation by custom.

• De jure segregation is segregation by the law and de facto is segregation by custom

• . De facto segregation is segregation that exists and de jure does not exist.

• all of the above

Which of the following are accurate statements about the tactics used during the Civil Rights movement in the 1960's?

• The use of sit-ins to protest racial discrimination became unpopular in the early 1960s

• Civil rights leaders focused on northern states where discrimination was common

• Marches to bring focus to issues of racial discrimination were essentially ineffective.

• Boycotts of discriminatory organizations and businesses became an effective protest tool

Which of the following ended segregation in schools?

• Executive Order 9981

• Brown v Board of Education

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Civil Rights Act of 1968

Which of the following gave the Federal Government the right to prosecute those who denied US citizens their right to vote?

• Executive Order 9981

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Brown v Board of Education

• Civil Rights Act of 1957

Read the descriptions below. Which person do these descriptions BEST fit?

● Joined the Nation of Islam in 1952 to promote black nationalism

● Rejected nonviolence as a strategy to bring about change

● Converted to orthodox Islam in 1964 and reached out to people of all races

• Stokely Carmichael

• James Meredith

• Elijah Muhammad

• Malcolm X

What were the 1968 Walkouts in the context of the Chicano Rights movement?

• The idea that any US citizen shall not be denied their rights as citizens and shall be treated as so.

• representatives of workers in many industries in the United States

• a series of 1968 protests by Chicano students against unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District high schools.

• A form of economic pressure in which a group of employees refuse to work until the boss gives them at they are asking for

Which of the following was intended to end segregation in California Schools.

• Loving v Virginia 1967

• Mendez vs Westminster 1947

• Brown v Board of Education

• Civil Rights Act of 1968

Historians argue that the following were all goals of the American Indian Movement EXCEPT:

• Respect of all previous treaties signed by the US government

• ending poverty in the reservations

• assimilation into the US mainstream

• continuation of Native culture

Why were survival schools created?

• to combat the high dropout rates in reservations

• . to teach basic survival and life skills

• to help preserve native culture

• all of the above

Bureau of Indian Affairs relocation brochure distributed to Native Americans, the 1950s After the Native American Termination Policy.

Which of the following was a consequence of the policies shown in the image above?

• Many natives lost their ancestral lands

• Most Native Americans successfully assimilated into the mainstream

• Many natives became wealthy from individual sales of native lands

• Most natives moved into the suburbs due to job opportunities and new housing