Chapter 10 Quiz

A  Court room challenges to discrimination

B  Violence

C  Legislation

D  Civil disobedience

E  Political lobbying

A  They were members of SNCC who rode motorcycles throughout the South, promoting local activism.

B  They were Mississippi Freedom Summer activists who traveled together to register southern blacks to vote.

C  They were an integrated group of mostly CORE members who sought to desegrate interstate bus travel.

D  They were SCLC members who traveled to Washington DC to lobby for desegration of schools in response to the strong Southern resistance.

E  They were members of the Ku Klux Klan who sought to intimidate southern black activists.

A  The integration of Central High was the beginning of the long struggle to desegregate educational facilities in the South.

B  Nine African American youth enrolled at the all-white Central High, sparking protests.

C  President Eisenhower intervened and sent troops to enforce desegregation.

D  All of these statements are accurate.

E  The governor ordered the National Guard to prevent the integration of the school.

A  Martin Luther King-served at the helm of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

B  Paul Robeson-black entertainer who was blacklisted for his advocacy of civil rights protests

C  Thurgood Marshall-NAACP lawyer who collaborated with the lawyer on the Mendez case

D  Ella Baker-convened meeting that resulted in the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

E  Rosa Parks-took leadership in the bus boycott in Montgomery

A  Race discrimination in college admission policies.

B  The lack of free speech on college campuses.

C  The practice of granting tenure to college professors

D  Sex discrimination in college admission policies

E  College fraternities and sororities

A  National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples

B  Urban League

C  Congress of Racial Equality

D  Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

E  Southern Christian Leadership Conference

A  the Watts riot in Los Angeles in 1965.

B  the deterioration of the social and economic conditions of many urban blacks in the Northern states

C  a shift in the tactics of the SCLC from passive resistance to violent confrontation.

D  denial of the right to vote to northern African Americans.

E  communist infiltration of civil rights groups.

A  They wanted access to education for their children.

B  They wanted to protect the rights of the growing number of undocumented farm workers.

C  All of these

D  They wanted more funding to develop efficient technologies.

E  They demanded better wages and safer working conditions.

A  worked hard to improve conditions for California farmers.

B  Turned to advocating violent confrontation after failing to achieve their goals.

C  relied on nonviolent protests and boycotts to further their causes.

D  Failed to gain support from the Kennedy administration.

E  started by getting federal laws passed to further their causes.

A  Guaranteed equal pay for equal work for women

B  Supported bilingual education in schools.

C  Protected women’s access to abortion under the right to privacy

D  Protected free speech on college campuses

E  Eliminated gender discrimination in education

A  It brought to the surface racial tensions among the black and white volunteers.

B  It signaled the growing cracks within the civil rights movement over goals.

C  Its major goal was to register black voters in the deep South.

D  It was characterized by violence against and intimidation of the volunteers.

E  All of these are accurate statements.

A  It focused on violent resistance.

B  Its focus was on separation rather than integration of the black community.

C  It lacked strong leadership.

D  It focused on media spectacle rather than work in the communities.

E  It found little support among African Americans.

A  caused a number of violent protests that resulted the death of many leaders of the movement.

B  started an uprising at the jail that eventually led to King and other protestors escaping.

C  defended non-violent protests and sparked greater attention to the movement

D  Expressed his frustration with the American involvement in Vietnam,thus lending support to the antiwar movement.

E  Convinced President Kennedy to pass the Civil Rights Act.

A  The fact that homosexuality had to be closeted.

B  Radical feminists.

C  The lack of access to safe and legal abortions.

D  A common medical condition among women that doctors had not yet identified.

E  The shared feeling among women that they were unhappy with their middle-class lives but could not openly discuss this unhappiness.

A  Protected black voting rights by sending federal registrars to southern districts

B  Provided for punishment of people who discriminated against racial groups

C  All of these

D  Eliminated poll taxes

E  Outlawed discrimination in public accommodations