USH L43 Quiz

Which of these tactics did Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference use most effectively in their struggle to win equal rights for African Americans?

• armed rebellion

• affirmative action

• nonviolent resistance

• reverse discrimination

Many civil rights protests in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963 turned violent. What resulted from these events and the publicity they generated?

• Civil rights activists in Birmingham began to carry weapons.

• Martin Luther King Jr. organized a bus boycott in Birmingham.

• City leaders agreed to desegregate public facilities in Birmingham.

• The Supreme Court ordered Birmingham schools to be desegregated.

The landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed racial discrimination in all of the following areas EXCEPT

• employment.

• housing.

• public accommodations.

• public schools.

How did President Eisenhower respond to the refusal to desegregate a school in Little Rock, Arkansas?

• He took the governor and school board to the Supreme Court.

• He sent in federal troops to enforce the school's integration.

• He had Congress implement laws requiring desegregation.

• He visited Little Rock and walked the Black students into the school.

Which of these campaigns was aimed at registering African Americans in the state with the lowest percentage of Black voters?

• Freedom Rides

• Freedom Summer

• March on Washington

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

How did civil rights activists achieve an accord with Birmingham to undergo desegregation of public facilities?

• Protestors participated in large sit-ins until the governor honored their demands.

• Photographs of protestors being harmed by police evoked sympathy from Americans.

• Pamphlets about discrimination in Birmingham were spread throughout the nation.

• Store owners convinced the city to desegregate public facilities.

In June 1964, one Black and two White student activists were murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi. This event is only one example of the violence that

• sit-in protestors in the South experienced.

• those who went on Freedom Rides endured.

• nonviolent protestors in Birmingham felt.

• participants in the Freedom Summer faced.

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a 43-year-old African American woman, refused to give up her seat on a bus to a White passenger. What organization decided to use her refusal to give up her seat as a test case against segregation?

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

• Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

What was a challenge the Little Rock Nine faced in their quest to desegregate Central High?

• President Eisenhower did not allow the federal government to intervene with force.

• The National Guard prevented African American students from entering the high school.

• Governor Orval Faubus declared he would not support desegregation.

• all of these

How did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 help to bring about the change from 7% of African Americans registered to vote in 1964 to 59% of African Americans registered to vote in 1968?

• It declared African Americans to be citizens with the right to vote.

• It ordered National Guard troops to protect Black voters in the South.

• It required federal supervision of voter registration in parts of the South.

• It made the denial of the right to vote for failing to pay poll taxes unconstitutional.