What was the effect of the Montgomery bus boycott?

organization of boycotts across the country

Why did Martin Luther King, Jr. want to begin the Poor People's Campaign?

believed that poverty affected African Americans more

Robert Kennedy urged civil rights workers to focus on voter registration because

he believed it was the key to change

What was one effect of segregated schools on African American children?

they believed they weren't as good as white children

Why was the tactic of nonviolence so successful in achieving change?

Violent segregationists outraged other Americans

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

banned discrimination in employment and housing

What was the Black Power movement?

wanted African Americans to rely on themselves for change

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1
What was the effect of the Montgomery bus boycott?
desegregation of bus station waiting rooms and restrooms
emergence of the Black Power movement
ban against segregation in all public facilities
organization of boycotts across the country
2
Robert Kennedy urged civil rights workers to focus their efforts on
integrating public facilities
voter registration
3
Why did Martin Luther King, Jr. want to begin the Poor People's Campaign?
believed that poverty affected African Americans more
He grew up poor and wanted to protest economic injustice
he had achieved his goal of voting rights for Blacks
basic rights for Blacks had not happened-needed new tactics
4
Robert Kennedy urged civil rights workers to focus on voter registration because
wanted to divert attention from N. civil rights violations
he believed it was the key to change
JFK would win the next election with the Black vote
thought registration was better than desegregation
5
Segregation by law
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Black Power
de jure
de facto
6
What was one effect of segregated schools on African American children?
they attended school less often than white children
felt resentful of the advantages that white children had
they believed in Black Power
they believed they weren't as good as white children
7
represented a radical shift in the civil rights movement
Plessy vs. Ferguson
de facto segregation
de jure segregation
Black Power
8
What kind of segregation exists through custom and practice rather than law?
De jure
De facto
9
Effect of segregation and the teaching of nonviolent protest methods
Sit-in movement
Freedom Summer
emergece of the Nation of Islam
Freedom Rides
10
___ offered African American students help with reading and math and taught black history.
Freedom Schools
segregated school
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Why was the tactic of nonviolence so successful in achieving change?
Influenced Supreme Court justices into making moral laws
Segregationists saw they didn't need to fear Black people
state gov't enforced the law and protected African Americans
Violent segregationists outraged other Americans
12
Became the first African American major league baseball player
Jackie Robinson
Thurgood Marshall
James Farmer
Rosa Parker
13
Which lawyer worked with the NAACP on the Brown vs Board of Education case?
Jackie Robinson
Thurgood Marshall
Rosa Parks
James Farmer
14
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
gave African Americans to right to vote
abolished slavery
banned discrimination in employment and housing
abolished the poll tax
15
What strategy did the NAACP adopt to fight for civil rights?
massive resitance
direct nonviolence
sit-ins
attacking racism in the courts
16
Became the first African American major league baseball player
Jackie Robinson
Thurgood Marshall
James Farmer
Rosa Parker
17
Non violent actions planned by CORE
de facto
Freedom rides
de jure
Little Rock Nine
18
What was the Black Power movement?
civil rights program created by the Nation of Islam
wanted African Americans to rely on themselves for change
taught African Americans the power of nonviolent resistance
called for integration of professional sports
19
Eloquent leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Stokely Carmichael
Fannie Lou Hamer
George Wallace
Jackie Robinson
20
J. Edgar Hoover created an FBI program to infiltrate and investigate what group?
Black Power
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