Chapter 18 - The Civil Rights Movement

(21) False

(21) De facto segregation refers to racial segregation enforced by law.

(22) False

(22) While campaigning for president, John Kennedy did not promise to actively support civil rights.

(23) True

President Kennedy made a deal that allowed the Freedom Riders to be arrested in Mississippi if the authorities prevented violence against them.

(24) True

(24) Dr. King's Letter from Birmingham Jail was a defense of nonviolent protest.

(25) True

(25) The X in Malcolm X's name stood as a symbol for the family name of his African ancestors who had been enslaved.

organized a bus boycott.

In response to the arrest of Rosa Parks, African Americans

sit-ins.

CORE successfully integrated many restaurants by using

defy the Supreme Court.

The Southern Manifesto encouraged white Southerners to

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., drew on the philosophy and techniques of

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., drew on the philosophy and techniques of

deploying the National Guard.

In Little Rock, Arkansas, the governor tried to prevent African American students from entering a white high school by

SNCC

The organization founded by student civil rights activists was

needed support from many Southern senators to get other programs passed.

At first President Kennedy acted slowly on civil rights because he

intimate knowledge of how Congress worked.

One advantage President Johnson had that Kennedy did not in getting the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed was his

voting rights for African Americans.

The purpose of the Selma March was to campaign for

racism

The Kerner Commission blamed the problems of inner cities on

Plessy v. Ferguson

Which of the Supreme Court rulings in the chart above condoned segregation?

is a powerful tool for achieving change.

In this passage, King is saying that protest

the separate-but-equal doctrine.

The ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 established

nonviolent passive resistance.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., believed the way to end segregation was through

encourage African Americans to register to vote.

When first established, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference set out to end segregation and

protect the right of African Americans to vote.

The Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first since Reconstruction, was intended to

rural areas of the Deep South.

SNCCs Voter Education Project focused on

integrate bus terminals.

The Freedom Riders were organized to draw attention to the South's refusal to

having the Justice Department file lawsuits throughout the South.

Robert Kennedy tried to help African Americans register to vote by

guarantee the right to vote.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did little to

send federal examiners to register qualified voters.

In registering African Americans to vote, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 authorized the Attorney General to

an integrated society was possible.

After his pilgrimage to Makkah, Malcolm X concluded that

It was the most comprehensive civil rights legislation Congress had ever passed.

Which of the following statements about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is true?

African Americans were a majority of the population.

Dr. King selected Selma, Alabama, for a protest march because

political rights.

Until the mid-1960s, the civil rights movement focused on

poverty

In the 1950s and 1960s, ____________ trapped many African Americans in inner cities.

serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.

In 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first African American to

keep their schools segregated for many more years.

When the Supreme Court ordered school districts to end school segregation with all deliberate speed, the wording was vague enough that many districts were able to

about a year.

The bus boycott in Montgomery lasted for