Unit 12 Learning Goal 1

On Civil Rights Truman:

Martin Luther King first rose to prominance when he lead which of the following events?

Ended segregation in public places and outlawed employment discrimination based on race, color, sex, or religion?

Which of the following was a response of Southern States to Brown v. Board of Education?

Martin Luther King's form of nonviolence resistence relied upon confronting unjust laws with protest called:

President Dwight D. Eisenhower

SNCC's first actions were working with CORE on a series of:

The first civil rights actions of the Black Freedom Movement were sit-ins in Northern cities by:

Southern Democrats who left the Democratic party after the Truman admin. added Civil Rights to the party platform.

The Brown v. Board of Education decision:

The chief lawer of the NAACP, who argued the Brown v. Board of Education case was:

In contrast to MLK's nonviolence, some Black leades/Americans advocated for:

Ended poll taxes

Segregation by local or state law.

Lead to a splintering of the Black Civil Rights Movement over the issue of white activism in the movement?

The murder of __________ contributed to the growth of the Black Freedom Movement in 1955.

Segregation that is by custom rather than strict state, local, or federal laws.

Martin Luther King Jr argued the greatest obsticle he confronted to racial justice was:

Outlawed discriminatory voting practices and provided federal oversight of elections in deep south states.

Southern states responded to Brown v. Board of education with a policy of: