M6L1: Civil Rights Practice Quiz

The March on Washington successfully

• Ended racial discrimination in employment.

• Pressured the John F. Kennedy administration to initiate a civil rights bill in Congress.

• Convinced Southern States to ban racial segregation.

• Convinced President Kennedy to participate in civil rights marches.

One of the major takeaways from the march was the discovery of the powerful impact of which of the following?

• The use of television and other media to explain a cause to the nation.

• How effective use of limited violence can draw positive attention to a cause.

• The high-profile presentation of Christian leaders in support of a cause.

• The importance of staging events in the nation's capital.

In his speech, Eisenhower refers to the leadership of the city of Little Rock as

• Realists working to allay fears of whites while implementing federal regulations.

• Demagogic extremists and disorderly mobs.

• Cautious and deliberate advocates of change.

• Proud and determined progressives fighting oppression.

She showed great respect and ____ in her defeat for the championship. 

• Disparity

• Dignity

• Constituents

• Entitlement

The March on Washington wished to direct attention on all of the following except

• Discrimination against African Americans in employment.

• The disproportionately high number of African Americans serving in Vietnam.

• Violations of African American civil rights.

• The continued segregation of African Americans in public facilities.

The desegregation of Little Rock High School came as a result of

• Changes in the social values of white leaders in Arkansas.

• A U.S. Supreme Court ruling and a presidential order.

• Increasingly violent civil rights marches and demonstrations.

• A long, drawn out boycott of white-owned businesses in Little Rock.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and 60 other ministers organized the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, whose purpose was to win civil rights. Based upon the quote, "Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation," in what way did King Plan to accomplish this goal?

• By bombing public buildings.

• By armed revolution.

• By running for elected offiice.

• By sit-ins and boycotts.

Four African American student activists in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960 were noteworthy for

• Publicly drinking from a "whites only" drinking fountain.

• Refusing to appear at the draft board after being called to serve in Vietnam.

• Staging one of the first lunch counter sit-ins against segregation.

• Brandishing legal firearms and militant insignia in a public place.

The fact is that America is faced with the widening ____ of wealth and opportunity in American society.

• Entitlement

• Disparity

• Segregated

• Dignity

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, secretary of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, sat down at the front of a Montgomery, Alabama bus. When the bus driver ordered Ms. Parks, an African-American woman, to the back of the bus, she refused to move. The police arrested and fined her for breaking the law. How did African Americans in Montgomery respond?

• They organized the Black Panther Party.

• They ostracized Rosa Parks.

• They looted and burned buildings.

• They boycotted the busses.