Exam 27: A Decade of Discord: The Challenge of the 1960s

César Chávez fought for better working and living conditions for members of what group?

As a Nation of Islam spokesperson, Malcolm X advocated _.

-What did 1960 Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy mean when he stated that he "was better off in the war [World War II] than they are in the coal mines" when he met with coal miners in West Virginia during his campaign?

Who was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States during the 1960s when liberal decisions were reached on the promotion of social justice?

-As a result of this 1961 bus firebombing outside of Anniston, Alabama, the Freedom Riders began to receive protection from .

As a result of President Kennedy's 1963 announcement of a proposed civil rights act that would outlaw segregated public facilities nationwide, became the first political figure to be assassinated during the 1960s.

What did Martin Luther King, Jr. allude to when he asked in his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," "How would whites feel about…telling their children that they could not go to the segregated amusement parks advertised on television, and living in constant fear of their lives?"

-As can be seen in this photograph, what was significant about the setting in which speakers gave their speeches to the crowds at the March on Washington?

What was ironic about the 1967 "Summer of Love"?

How was the SCLC's 1966 Chicago campaign different from the Watts Riots?

Michael Harrington's 1962 book The Other America: Poverty in the United States had its greatest impact by .

-Based on the table above, the Supreme Court focused primarily on hearing cases dealing with During the 1960s.

Freedom Summer was a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement and a multi-pronged attack on white supremacy that took place in 1964 in the state of _.

-What was the purpose of this photograph that was taken on the march from Selma to Montgomery the week after "Bloody Sunday" and features civil rights protestors praying in front of a billboard claiming Martin Luther King Jr. was a communist?

The purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was to guarantee voting rights by .

-Why did the 1964 murders of CORE workers Andrew Goodman, James Earl Chaney, and Michael Schwerner in Mississippi and the FBI investigation that followed it anger many black Americans when their disappearances were first publicized?

-The image pictured here is most closely associated with the issues that led to the Supreme Court case of _.

In his 1960 book The Conscience of a Conservative, Republican Senator Barry Goldwater wrote that government should .

This image of Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter Yolanda and his wife Coretta Scott King taken after his funeral best captures the .

The Free Speech Movement organized by Mario Savio in 1964 had its start at after this school's administration shut down an off-campus area where students could hand out political pamphlets or give speeches.