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

The coalition of student-based organizations that attacked racial discrimination, poverty, and the war in Vietnam during the 1960s was known as .

-The title of Robert Altman's photograph "Holding Together" refers to the hippies'

In "The Port Huron Statement" of 1962, what group of people was activist Tom Hayden urging to join the protest movement when he stated that "we are the people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit"?

-This image of Malcolm X, who is shown on the left, taking a photograph of heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali in 1964 kept white Americans on edge because both men

Author James Baldwin wrote in The Fire Next Time that believed that "the white God has not delivered them, perhaps the black God will" to explain this group's growing popularity with Northern black urban neighborhoods.

-Who would have most likely worn this souvenir pin commemorating Apollo 11's moon landing in 1969?

-This map of civil rights milestones that took place between 1961 and 1965 shows that

-What type of message did feminists picketing the 1968 Miss America Pageant intend to convey to the American public through the posters they were holding?

As a delegate for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which of the following women spoke eloquently in favor of bringing electoral justice to the South?

-As depicted in this photograph, why did the group "Indians of All Tribes" decide to occupy the site of an abandoned federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay between 1969 and 1971?

-Based on this chart, what conclusion can be made about the liberal legislation that was part of Johnson's Great Society?

John F. Kennedy's legislative program, which emphasized a liberal agenda and included raising the minimum wage, providing health care for the elderly, and increasing government spending to stimulate the economy was known as the .

How did Lyndon Johnson's Great Society program impact the executive level of government?

Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring created a favorable climate for .

-What was the irony captured by Life photographer Steve Schapiro's photograph of Martin Luther King Jr.'s room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis when Schapiro took this snapshot several hours after King's assassination?

What competing visions did Helen Gurley Brown and Betty Freidan offer on how women should be viewed during the 1960s?

-Photographs such as this one of the Watts Riots in 1965 were mainly intended to emphasize

The Black Panther Movement was established in 1966 by .

-Why did civil rights activists in Birmingham approve the media's use of such violent pictures taken by Life photojournalist Charles Moore that depicted the mistreatment of women and young people during the Birmingham campaign of April 1963?

Why did John F. Kennedy fail to support the Civil Rights Movement after the actions taken in 1961 by the Freedom Riders?