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1
Which campaign was aimed at registering African Americans to vote?
March on Birmingham
March on Washington
Freedom Summer
Freedom Rides
2
Which of the following is an example of de jur segregation?
Gerrymandering
Poll Taxes
Racial Zoning Laws
Lynching
3
What is the oldest civil rights organization, founded in 1909, by W.E.B Dubois?
CORE
SNCC
SCLC
NAACP
4
What led to the formation of the Kerner Commission?
The Assassination of President Kennedy
The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
The Watts Riots
The Assassination of Malcolm X
5
Ella Baker was the leader of what organization?
SCLC
SNCC
CORE
Black Panthers
6
Which of the following is an example of de facto segregation?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Racial Zoning Laws
Jim Crow Laws
Restrictive Covenants
7
What did Affirmative Action do?
Increased racial zoning
increased American American history in the United States
increased the number of minorities in the workforce
integrated the armed forces
8
ABC was concerned about broadcasting Alex Haley's
Roots
because:
They feared starting riots
They feared low television ratings
It was offensive to whites
It would promote segregation
9
Which tactic did the SCLC use most effectively to win equal rights for African Americans?
Armed Rebellion
Affirmative Action
Nonviolent resistance
Hungary strikes
10
Jackie Robinson is best known for which of the following?
Being the foundering of the NAACP
Breaking the color barrier in baseball
Killing MLK
Being a part of the sit ins in Greensborow
11
Mohandas K. Gandhi originated what concept?
civil disobedience
black power
racial zoning
gerrymandoring
12
Swann V. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Ed said what?
the army could not be segregated
Housing could not be segregated
busing was an acceptable way to achieve school integration
upheld separate but equal
13
How was the Black Panther Party different than another organization during this time?
was government funded
prepared to take violent actions
Helped with the Brown v. Board of ed ruling
was a student lead organization
14
Which of the following is a student lead organization?
CORE
NAACP
SCLC
Nation of Islam
15
Plessy v Ferguson stated which of the following?
segregation can be upheld under "separate but equal"
White Primaries were unconstitutional
All schools must be desegregated
There must be equal treatment in the military
16
The Supreme Court under the leadership of Chief Justice Earl Warren is best known for:
Investigating Jim Crow
Upholding segregation
Promoting civil rights
Desegregating the Armed Forces
17
Which of the following tactics was not used to disenfranchise African American voters?
White Primaries
Filibustering
Poll Tax
Literacy Tests
18
Affirmative action was upheld by which court case?
Brown v. Board of Ed
Plessy v. Ferguson
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Ed
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
19
When did Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his famous "I Have a Dream Speech"?
After the Montgomery Bus Boycott
During the March on Washington DC
Before he got arrested
In 1966
20
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1968 do?
Banned discrimination in regards to housing
Allowed blacks to vote
banned discrimination in public places
desegregated schools
21
Which individual rejected nonviolence as a strategy and converted to orthodox Islam in 1964?
Malcolm X
Stokley Carmichael
Martin Luther King Jr.
A. Phillip Randolph
22
Freedom Summer mainly targeted what state?
Mississippi
Georgia
Illinois
South Carolina
23
Brown v. The Board of Ed desegregated which of the following?
The Warren court
schools and all public facility
schools only
the military
24
The Watts Riots occurred where?
Baltimore
White Zoned neighborhood in New York
A ghetto in LA
Birmingham Alabama
25
Rosa Parks used this tactic to get her message across?
nonviolent civil disobedience
Black Power
filibuster
Violent riots
26
How did President Eisenhower react to the forced integration of Central High School?
He support the violence towards the 9 students
He passed an executive order
he ignored the situation
He sent in federal troops
27
Black Nationalism was a doctrine that called for which of the following?
A focus on African history and culture in the United States
An African American president
complete separation of the two races
A new political party
28
Executive order 9981 did which of the following?
Desegregated schools
Ensured equal protection under the law
Desegregated the military
gave blacks the right to vote
