Civil Rights Movement

Which of the following is true of poverty in the late 1950s?

• The average age of a person living in poverty was 20 in the late 1950s.

• Around one in four Americans was living in poverty in the late 1950s.

• The poor population was mostly blue-collar workers in the late 1950s.

• Poverty stricken areas were ver far from affluent areas in the late 1950s.

What resulted from the civil rights protests in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963?

• MLK 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.
• Civil rights activist began to carry weapons.

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 had Congress implement laws requiring desegregation.
• He sent in federal troops to enforce the school's integration.
• He visited Little Rock and walked the black students into the school.

Which of these groups sent observers into the streets armed with law books and shotguns to protect blacks from police mistreatment in the 1960s?

• Black Panthers
• Nation of Islam
• Congressional Black Caucus
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Which of these organizations was founded in the 1960s "to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society"?

• Women's Army Corp
• League of Women Voters
• National Orgianization for Women
• National American Woman Suggrage Association

Who helped found the United Farm Workers, organized a national boycott of grapes, and used hunger strikes to draw attention to the plight of migrant workers?

• Betty Friedan
• Rodolfo Gonzales
• Maggie Kuhn
• Cesar Chavez

Who Joined the Nation of Islamin 1952 and rejected nonviolence as a strategy to bring about change?

• Stokely Carmichael
• James Meredith
• Elijah Muhammad
• Malcolm X

Which of the folliong was responsible for the occupation of Alcatraz Island, the Trail of Broken Treaties, and the Longest Walk

• Gray Panthers
• La Raza Unida
• Red Power movement
• Yellow Power movement

What was the main goal of the Jpanese American Citizens League in the late 1970s and 1980s?

• to develop Japanese American enthnic studies progrmas
• to encourage voter registration among Japanese Americans
• to combat the myth of Japanese Americans as the model minority
• to obtain reparations for Japanese Americans interned during WWII

Why is Harvey Milk a significant figue in gay rights history?

• He was the first governor in the South to pass laws supporting gay rights.
• He was the first openly gay candidate to be elected to office in a major US city.
• He was the first president of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.
• He was the first leader of the gay rights movement and owned the Stonewall Inn.