1960s and Civil Rights Movement
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11th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
“Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1964.
-Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965.
What issues are the above quotes referring to? (Choose ALL that apply.)
Frustration with government policies
Support of US military intervention in foreign nationals
Rights of citizens to protest unjust treatement
Anger at accepted societal norms in relation to race
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
During the late 1960s, Mexican American students in Los Angeles participated in the Chicano movement by organizing school walkouts. What was the PRIMARY goal of these walkouts?
To end the use of poll taxes for voting.
To raise awareness of insufficient educational opportunities.
To protest the rising cost of college education.
To support the passage of a minimum wage law.
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal
to segregate schools.
to integrate schools.
to pay African Americans more money.
to pay African Americans less money.
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
What group during the Civil Rights Movement allowed members to use all necessary means to defend and provide for their community?
SNCC
Black Panthers
NAACP
Southern Peace Corps
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
What was the goal of the protests depicted on this map?
To pressure Congress to prohibit discrimination against disabled citizens.
To demonstrate the economic impact of discriminatory practices on interstate transportation.
To challenge the federal government to enforce Supreme Court rulings against discrimination in interstate transportation.
To persuade states to abandon discriminatory voter-registration procedures.
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
President Eisenhower exercised his federal authority in an effort to —
Ensure the safety of protesters at lunch counter sit-ins.
End the violence directed against the Freedom Riders.
Enforce a ruling to desegregate public schools.
Protect citizens from rioting spurred by Ku Klux Klan rallies.
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
“Jackie Robinson Breaks Color Barrier in Major League Baseball”
“President Truman Issues Executive Order Desegregating Armed Forces”
“NAACP Challenges School Segregation”
These headlines are most closely associated with:
A decline in African American participation in political activities.
The beginning of the modern civil rights movement.
Southern resistance to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The effects of affirmative action programs.
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