Multiple Choice
Identify the
letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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| 1. | Which
group’s actions led to the integration of many southern restaurants? A. | Nation of
Islam | C. | Freedom
Riders | B. | Black Panthers | D. | SNCC | | | | |
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| 2. | Who
was the FBI director who attempted to “disrupt” and “discredit” black
nationalists and various civil rights organizations? A. | Jimmy
Kelley | C. | Stokely
Carmichael | B. | J. Edgar Hoover | D. | Allan Bakke | | | | |
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| 3. | Which
organization was formed by white and African American southern student activists?
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| 4. | Which
event led to dramatic increases in African American voter registration? A. | COFO voter
registration drives | B. | passage of the Voting Rights Act | C. | March on
Washington | D. | founding of the Black Panther Party | | |
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| 5. | The
Montgomery Improvement Association expanded into the A. | Southern
Christian Leadership Conference. | B. | Congress of Racial Equality. | C. | Council of
Federated Organizations. | D. | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. | | |
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| 6. | The
Voter Education Project was founded with the assistance of the A. | Johnson
administration. | C. | Eisenhower
administration. | B. | Ford administration. | D. | Kennedy administration. | | | | |
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| 7. | According to the Kerner Commission, what was largely responsible for causing the
tensions that led to the riots in Detroit and other cities in the mid-1960s? A. | white
racism | B. | failure to gain major civil rights
legislation | C. | black racism | D. | passage of new
segregation laws | | |
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| 8. | The
plan that brought in white volunteers to help with voter registration efforts was
called A. | the Poor
People’s Campaign. | C. | Rainbow
Summer. | B. | Freedom Summer. | D. | Operation Vote. | | | | |
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| 9. | Who
was the governor who banned the protest march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965? A. | Andrew
Goodman | C. | George
Wallace | B. | T. Eugene Connor | D. | Ross Barnett | | | | |
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| 10. | Why
were many SNCC members reluctant to join a coalition between the SNCC and the Black Panthers in
1968? A. | Most of their
civil rights goals had already been achieved. | B. | The Black
Panthers were too conservative. | C. | The Black Panthers openly supported
violence. | D. | They preferred the methods of the Nation of
Islam. | | |
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| 11. | From
which jail did Martin Luther King Jr. write a famous letter to a group of clergymen? A. | McComb | C. | Selma | B. | Memphis | D. | Birmingham | | | | |
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| 12. | Which
Supreme Court decision struck down the quota system? A. | University of
California v. Bakke | C. | Brown
v. Board of Education | B. | Milliken v.
Bradley | D. | Evers
v. Smith | | | | |
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| 13. | SNCC
organizer John Lewis maintained that if voter registration could be increased in this state it could
be increased in the rest of the country. A. | Alabama | C. | North Carolina | B. | Mississippi | D. | Tennessee | | | | |
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| 14. | Who
was the Supreme Court justice who dissented from the Court’s majority ruling in University of
California v. Bakke? A. | Thurgood Marshall | C. | Michael Harrington | B. | William
Rutherford | D. | J. Edgar
Hoover | | | | |
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| 15. | Carl
Stokes became the first African American mayor of A. | Cleveland. | C. | Milwaukee. | B. | Detroit. | D. | Chicago. | | | | |
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| 16. | Which
Court case encouraged companies to create affirmative action programs? A. | Ward v.
Cleaver | C. | Milliken
v. Bradley | B. | University of California v.
Bakke | D. | Griggs
v. Duke Power Co. | | | | |
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| 17. | The
Supreme Court banned racial segregation in public schools in A. | 1963. | C. | 1941. | B. | 1968. | D. | 1954. | | | | |
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| 18. | In
the early 1970s polls showed that white Americans A. | were almost unanimously opposed to court-ordered
busing. | B. | approved of court-ordered busing by a 2-to-1
margin. | C. | opposed court-ordered busing by a 3-to-1
margin. | D. | were almost unanimously in favor of court-ordered
busing. | | |
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| 19. | Under
Stokely Carmichael, the SNCC began controversial protests against A. | the Black
Panthers. | C. | court-ordered
busing. | B. | the Vietnam War. | D. | the policies of Elijah Muhammad. | | | | |
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| 20. | What
was the name of the settlement constructed to draw attention to African American
poverty? A. | Resurrection
City | C. | Poorhouse
City | B. | City of
Angels | D. | Hooverville | | | | |
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Matching
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Match each item with the correct statement. A. | Robert
Moses | G. | Civil Rights Act
of 1964 | B. | Medgar Evers | H. | Black Panther Party | C. | Martin Luther
King Jr. | I. | Voting Rights
Act | D. | James
Chaney | J. | James
Meredith | E. | Malcolm X | K. | Elijah Muhammad | F. | Ralph
Abernathy | L. | Freedom
Riders | | | | |
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| 21. | hoped
to draw attention to violations of a Supreme Court ruling that stated that segregation was illegal in
facilities that served interstate travelers
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| 22. | put
the entire voter registration process under federal control
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| 23. | leader of the SNCC who wanted white supporters to help in voter registration
drives
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| 24. | took
over as leader of the SCLC after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination
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| 25. | called for unity among all people after converting to orthodox Islam
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| 26. | started by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
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| 27. | became the leader of the Nation of Islam in the early 1930s
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| 28. | CORE
worker who was murdered during Freedom Summer
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| 29. | delivered one of the most famous addresses in American history in 1963
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| 30. | NAACP
field secretary who was murdered by a white racist in 1963
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