Civil Rights Movement Review - US History

One major difference between MLK's practice of non-violent protest and the methods/ beliefs of the Black Panthers' is that the Black Panthers called for -

• practice of Islam as central to equal rights.

• allying with other organizations to create one super organization.

• lobbying in Washington to gain equality,

• gaining rights through any means necessary, including violence.

Which of these terms means separating people by race, usually with a dominant race and an oppressed race/ races?

• segregation

• integration

Which of these terms means the mixing of people (races) who were previously separated?

• Integration

• Segregation

Protests such as bus boycotts, marches and sit- ins were all organized as means of peaceful protest to achieve -

• the right for women to vote.

• black separatism.

• integration.

• segregation.

Rosa Parks is important to the Civil Rights Movement because she-

• disobeyed segregation laws and sat in the white section of a bus to draw attention to discrimination.

• acted as the lawyer in the Brown v. Board of Education case.

• was a leader of the Freedom Rides and member of SNCC.

• was an inspiration to Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam.

In response to the arrest of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr. helped to organize and lead protests known as-

• March in Selma.

• Montgomery Bus Boycott.

• March on Washington.

• Freedom Rides.

Minority groups, such as Mexican Americans, organized movements such as the Chicano Movement, which protested inequality in education by-

• staging marches.

• holding rallies.

• staging school walk outs.

• staging violent uprisings.

A major part of the Chicano Movement was to -

• teach and preserve their unique culture.

• protest discrimination in transportation.

• find ways to be wealthy for Mexican Americans.

• focus on supporting the rights of African Americans.

Why were the sit-ins of the Civil Rights Movement organized?

• To bring awareness of segregation in places like lunch counters.

• To expose government corruption.

• To protest segregation on buses.

• To protest segregration in schools.

Even though President Johnson would later become unpopular because of the Vietnam War, in the 1964 election he easily won because-

• he outlawed segregation and signed the Civil Rights Act.

• his opponent supported de-segregation.

• his opponent defied court orders to integrate schools.

• he sent the National Guard to protect protestors in the South.