Marches, demonstrations, boycotts, and sit-ins are examples of what techniques commonly used by followers of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
a. Civil disobedience
b. Negotiation
c. Nonviolent direct action
d. Pacifism
e. Torture
Question -2-What 1955 event launched the modern civil rights movement?
a.
Brown v. Board of Education b. The formation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
c. The integration of a high school in Little Rock
d. The Montgomery bus boycott
e. the Southern Manifesto
Question -3-Brown v. Board of Education (1954) led to the
a. desegregation of public schools.
b. desegregation of the military.
c. Fifteenth Amendment.
d. segregation of many federal departments.
e. separate but equal doctrine.
Question -4-Who was the nominee for the States Rights Party in 1948?
a. Dwight Eisenhower
b. Harry Truman
c. John McCain
d. Robert Kennedy
e. Strom Thurmond
Question -5-What prompted some Southern delegates to form the States Rights Party?
a.
Brown v. Board of Education b. The adoption of a strong civil rights plank in the Democratic Party
c. The desegregation of the military
d. The formation of the Fair Employment Practices Committee
e. The Southern Manifesto
Question -6-Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Fair Employment Practices Committee in response to
a.
Brown v. Board of Education. b.
Plessy v. Ferguson. c. pressure from newly elected black congressmen.
d. the Southern Manifesto.
e. the threat of a massive march on Washington, D.C.
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