Unit Fourteen Civil Rights

When Congress refused to adopt anti-lynching laws and a ban on poll taxes, President Truman responded by...

• Creating a third political party, the Dixiecrats

• Issuing an executive order to integrate the armed forces

• Pressing for the Supreme Court to step in and take action

• Waiting for a better time to introduce civil rights legislation

In the 1950s, what became the largest medium of communication, as well as a symbol of popular culture?

• Radio

• Movies

• Magazines

• Television

In his letter from a Birmingham jail, Martin Luther King Jr. argued that ___________________.

• violence was now and always the only answer to racial injustice

• blacks from all over the U.S. should relocate to the South and force integration

• without nonviolent forceful direct actions, true civil rights could never be achieved

• all hope in integrated the South was doomed for failure

Jackie Robinson is best known as the

• Founding member of the SCLC

• Defense lawyer in Brown vs. Board of Education

• First African American to integrate major league baseball

• Only African American to enroll at the University of Mississippi

What was the name of the group founded by Martin Luther King Jr. and 200 other ministers and civil rights leaders to promote nonviolent crusades against the evils of second class citizenship?

• SCLC

• SNCC

• NAACP

• NCAA

The above headlines all contributed to

• An economic boycott in Southern states

• The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

• The repeal of the Voting Rights Act of 1965

• The rise of violent activism in Southern states

What had a major impact on the outcome of the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debates?

• Political platforms

• Radio

• Television

• Computers

Why is Rosa Parks referred to as the “mother of the civil rights movement”?

• She was married to a civil rights protester

• She was the first women to protest discrimination

• She worked as a civil rights activist in the 1970s

• She helped to change segregation practices in America’s cities

In 1964, Martin Luther King, Jr. stated, “We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools.” King was referring to the state of

• Race relations in the U.S.

• The elimination of poll taxes

• The 1963 March on Washington

• Literacy tests used in voter registration

The principal goal of the activity described in this statement was to

• Encourage change through violent means

• Achieve racial integration of public facilities

• Expand voting rights for African Americans

• Force the president to send military troops into the South