The Civil Rights Movement

The "Southern Manifesto" encouraged white Southerners to:

• defy the Supreme Court

• embrace desegregation

• march against civil rights

• obey local law enforcement

Members of CORE used ______, a form of protest first used by union workers in the 1930s, to desegregate restaurants.

• bus boycotts

• lockouts

• sit-ins

• freedom marches

In Little Rock, Arkansas, the governor tried to prevent African American students from entering a white high school by

• closing the school.

• deploying the National Guard.

• hiring the Ku Klux Klan.

• redrawing the school district.

One advantage President Johnson had—that Kennedy did not—in getting the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed was his

• ability to convince minorities to vote.

• close relationships with civil rights leaders.

• intimate knowledge of how Congress worked.

• willingness to appoint minorities to his cabinet.

The ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 established

• the right of African Americans to vote.

• the right of all Americans to equal protection under the law.

• the right of all Americans to peaceful protest.

• the “separate but equal” doctrine.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., believed the way to end segregation was through

• economic self-improvement.

• nonviolent passive resistance.

• riots and vandalism.

• separation from white society.

The Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first civil rights law since Reconstruction, was intended to

• end discrimination in hiring.

• end lynching.

• protect the right of African Americans to attend desegregated schools.

• protect the right of African Americans to vote.

Robert Kennedy tried to help African Americans register to vote by

• directing the news media to cover the marches in the South.

• having the Justice Department file lawsuits throughout the South.

• proposing a voting rights bill to Congress.

• sending U.S. Marshals to voting booths in the South.

In 1967 Thurgood Marshall became the first African American to

• attend an all-white school

• be voted into Congress

• earn a law degree

• serve on the U.S. Supreme Court

Dr. King selected Selma, Alabama, for a protest march because

• African Americans were a majority of the population

• most African American residents were not registered to vote

• opposition to school desegregation was particularly intense in Selma

• violence against Freedom Riders in Selma had been well documented