Unit 8 Study Guide

In Georgia history, the Sibley Commission is MOST linked to which of these?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• The Civil Rights Act of 1964

• The Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Brown v. Board of Education

The decision in Brown v. Board of Education addressed the issue of

• segregation.

• voting rights.

• school funding.

• Affirmative Action.

Which of these BEST represents the official recommendation of the Sibley Commission in 1960?

Georgia's school systems should shut down to avoid integration.

• Georgia's school systems should shut down to avoid integration.

• Georgia's public schools should be desegregated on a limited basis.

• Georgia's public schools should be completely desegregated immediately.

• Georgia's universities and colleges were the only institutions that should desegregate.

In 1956, the General Assembly Georgia decided to change the state flag. What was MOST LIKELY the purpose of the flag change?

• As a memorial to Confederate soldiers that died in the Civil War

• To express its resistance to the federal government's integration demands

• To ease the sectional tension in the United States

• To show unity between African American and white Georgians

“When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rightsmovement. I was in college at that time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringingabout change.”

Which congressman and former chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee made the statement in the box?

• Maynard Jackson

• John Lewis

• Jesse Jackson

• Ralph Abernathy

What was the MAIN goal of the Albany Movement?

• To find out if Georgians were in favor of integrating public schools

• To preserve Jim Crow laws throughout the south

• To elect Martin Luther King Jr. to public office

• To promote desegregation and voter’s rights in Southwest Georgia

Which organization was led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?

• The Black Panthers

• The Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• The Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee

• The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Which person is most closely associated with the principle of nonviolent resistance?

• Malcolm X

• John F. Kennedy

• Stokely Carmichael

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his historic "I Have a Dream" speech

• at the March on Washington.

• at the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

• at the Baptist Church in Montgomery.

• after the bombing at the 16th street Baptist Church in Birmingham.

With which organization was John Lewis (seen here) MOST associated as a leader?

• SNCC

• NAACP

• SCLC

• CORE