Deck 6: The Civil Rights Movement the Gods Bring Threads to Webs Begun

Question 1

The NAACP victory in Smith v. Allwright, which invalidated the all-white primary, was undermined by

A) A weak Supreme Court opinion
B) Lack of will in Washington to enforce the ruling
C) The power of the KKK in southern states
D) Government focus on fears of communism

Answer 1

B

Question 2

The primary way the NAACP had challenged segregation throughout the 20th century was

A) Through legal challenges
B) Via nonviolent direct action
C) Through riots and social disorder
D) Labor insurgency

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The NAACP's most effective lawyer and advocate at this period was

A) Martin Luther King, Jr.
B) Thurgood Marshall
C) Charles Houston
D) A. Philip Randolph

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Brown v. Board of Education was different type of civil rights case because

A) It challenged unequal spending on facilities for Black and white students
B) It challenged the badge of inferiority created by segregation
C) It challenged the stigma attached to the entire Black community by segregation
D) It challenged all of the above for the first time

Question 5

-According to this map, the percentage of Black and white students attending school together in most southern states was

A) Less than 10%
B) Less than 5%
C) Less than 4%
D) Zero

Question 6

The effectiveness of the Brown decision was undermined at first by

A) The violent reaction against it across the South
B) Threats of a new Civil War
C) The expense of building new, desegregated facilities
D) The Supreme Court's unwillingness to mandate a timeline for desegregation

Question 7

Eisenhower was

A) In favor of the Brown decision to desegregate schools
B) In favor of desegregation, but afraid to undermine his support in the South
C) Against the Brown decision
D) Against all types of desegregation

Question 8

Eisenhower believed that _______ were extremists.

A) Those who pressed for federal encouragement of compliance with Brown
B) Those who opposed desegregation
C) The Supreme Court
D) Both those who pressed for compliance and those who resisted desegregation

Question 9

Southern support for compliance with the Brown decision decreased as

A) Politicians had to use more racist rhetoric to stay in office
B) Federal efforts to force desegregation encouraged resistance
C) Segregationists modified their rhetoric to appeal to moderates
D) All of the above

Question 10

The "Southern Manifesto" of 1956 promised

A) Rapid desegregation
B) Resistance to desegregation
C) Slow but steady movement toward desegregation
D) Secession from the Union

Question 11

-This image of a protest against desegregation at Little Rock's Central High School shows

A) The violence inherent in segregationist protests
B) The role of fears of miscegenation in segregationist rhetoric
C) The linking of racist and anticommunist rhetoric
D) All of the above

Question 12

The moment when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus was

A) The first time she had pushed back against segregation
B) The result of a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.
C) A well-planned attack on the Montgomery bus system
D) The culmination of years of activist work and education on her part

Question 13

The primary groundwork for the Montgomery bus boycott was laid by
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A) NAACP and union leader E. D. Nixon
B) Rosa Parks
C) Martin Luther King, Jr.
D) All of the above

Question 14

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a natural leader for the Montgomery bus boycott because

A) He was a minister
B) He was new to Montgomery
C) He was an articulate and persuasive speaker
D) All of the above

Question 15

The four students who started the sit-in movement

A) Were admirers of Martin Luther King, Jr.
B) Had parents who were activists
C) Had been taught at school to push back against discrimination
D) All of the above

Question 16

The first sit-in at a Woolworth's in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina was

A) A planned protest by the four students who executed it
B) A long-planned NAACP campaign
C) The first planned action of a new, more radical civil rights organization
D) A spontaneous reaction to racism by Woolworth's employees

Question 17

The frustrations of the Greensboro Black community included

A) Token desegregation of the schools
B) Lack of jobs for college-educated Black men and women
C) The refusal to desegregate restaurants, golf courses, movie theaters, and other amenities
D) All of the above

Question 18

The Greensboro sit-in sparked similar protests across the South, which were

A) Largely planned by the NAACP
B) Masterminded by MLK and the SCLC
C) Spontaneous reactions as news of the tactic spread
D) Guided by Ella Baker

Question 19

At a conference at Shaw University, Ella Baker encouraged the student protestors

A) To join their local NAACP branches
B) To build an independent, student-led organization
C) To became an arm of the SCLC
D) To be careful not to ruin their futures by being arrested

Question 20

The Freedom Rides were designed to

A) Test the freedom of interstate bus facilities
B) Draw national attention to segregation
C) Bus activists into the hardcore racist areas of the Deep South
D) Bus activists out of the South and into border areas