1960s and Civil Rights Movement

“Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.  It is a sword that heals.”

-Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1964.

 

“Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.”

-Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965.

What issues are the above quotes referring to? (Choose ALL that apply.)

• Frustration with government policies

• Support of US military intervention in foreign nationals

• Rights of citizens to protest unjust treatement

• Anger at accepted societal norms in relation to race

During the late 1960s, Mexican American students in Los Angeles participated in the Chicano movement by organizing school walkouts. What was the PRIMARY goal of these walkouts?

• To end the use of poll taxes for voting.

• To raise awareness of insufficient educational opportunities.

• To protest the rising cost of college education.

• To support the passage of a minimum wage law.

 Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal

• to segregate schools.

• to integrate schools.

• to pay African Americans more money.

• to pay African Americans less money.

What group during the Civil Rights Movement allowed members to use all necessary means to defend and provide for their community?

• SNCC

• Black Panthers

• NAACP

• Southern Peace Corps

What was the goal of the protests depicted on this map?

• To pressure Congress to prohibit discrimination against disabled citizens.

• To demonstrate the economic impact of discriminatory practices on interstate transportation.

• To challenge the federal government to enforce Supreme Court rulings against discrimination in interstate transportation.

• To persuade states to abandon discriminatory voter-registration procedures.

President Eisenhower exercised his federal authority in an effort to —

• Ensure the safety of protesters at lunch counter sit-ins.

• End the violence directed against the Freedom Riders.

• Enforce a ruling to desegregate public schools.

• Protect citizens from rioting spurred by Ku Klux Klan rallies.

“Jackie Robinson Breaks Color Barrier in Major League Baseball”

 

“President Truman Issues Executive Order Desegregating Armed Forces”

 

“NAACP Challenges School Segregation”

These headlines are most closely associated with:

• A decline in African American participation in political activities.

• The beginning of the modern civil rights movement.

• Southern resistance to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

• The effects of affirmative action programs.

What group during the Civil Rights Movement allowed members to use all necessary means to defend and provide for their community?

• Southern Peace Corps

• NAACP

• SNCC

• Black Panthers

The Supreme Court decision that allowed segregation to be legal as long as facilities were “separate but equal”—1896

State and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States.

• Affirmative Action Laws

• Integration Laws

• Civil Disobedience Laws

• Jim Crow Laws