The Civil Rights Movement

Executive Order 9981 (below) was issued by President Harry Truman in 1948:

"It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be

equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services

without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin."

What was the immediate impact of Executive Order 9981?

• The

  armed forces of the United States were desegregated

• Free

  education was promised to veterans who had served in World War II

• Southern

  members of the Democratic Party left and formed a new political party

• Equal

  opportunity in education was established to promote advances in science

  and mathematics

Which four organizations opposed the use of violence in the struggle for African

American civil rights?

• NAACP,

  Urban League, CORE, SCLC

• CORE,

  KKK, Black Panthers, Nation of Islam

• SNCC

  after 1967, SCLC, CORE, Black Panthers

• NAACP,

  Urban League, SNCC after 1967, Nation of Islam

What strategy did both Martin Luther King Jr. use to achieve

social change?

• Organized

  labor unions

• Started

  riots

• Created

  militant demonstrations

• Led

  nonviolent boycotts

What was the goal of African American and white volunteers during the Freedom

Summer?

• To

  train African Americans in job skills

• To

  integrate state-supported universities

• To

  protect segregated eating establishments

• To

  register African American voters

What did Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. urge his followers to do in order to bring

about racial justice?

• File

  lawsuits against segregationists

• Engage

  in acts of civil disobedience

• Lobby

  Congress for reparations payments

• Vote

  only for African American candidates

Which of these efforts by the women’s rights movement was similar to the Civil Rights movement’s support for an end to poll taxes?

• The

  attempt to get the Equal Rights Amendment ratified

• The

  attempt to have women included in the Voting Rights Act of 1965

• The

  attempt to promote equal pay for equal work

• The

  attempt to raise awareness about women’s underrepresentation in Congress

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 eliminated

• Barriers

  to voting for women

• Literacy

  tests as prerequisites for voting

• Proof

  of residency as a condition for voting

• Age

  discrimination

The program that promotes preference in hiring for African Americans and other minorities to correct past injustices is known as

• Title

  IX

• Open

  admissions

• Affirmative

  action

• Head

  Start

During the 1950s and 1960s, which civil rights leader advocated black separatism?

• Medgar

  Evers

• James

  Meredith

• Rosa

  Parks

• Malcolm

  X

During the civil rights movement of the 1960s, activities of the Congress of Racial Equality, the National Urban League, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) illustrated that

• All

  civil rights groups used the same tactics

• Different

  approaches can be used to achieve a common goal

• Organizational

  differences usually lead to failure

• Violence

  is the best took for achieving social change