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Civil Rights Movement

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11th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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)

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

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