Unit 9 & 10 Benchmark Review

What Civil Right organization was a student led group that specialized in sit-ins?

• Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

• National Association of the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

• Student Non-Violent Coordination Committee (SNCC)

Which is NOT an example of Georgia's response to the Brown v. Board of Education decision of the US Supreme Court?

• The governor pledged to integrate the state's schools

• The General Assembly voted to cut off state funds to any schools that desegregated

• The Sibley Commission traveled throughout the state encouraging the peaceful desegregation of schools

What was the purpose of the Sibley Commission?

• Integrating Georgia's public transportation system

• Making proposals to the legislature to address racial issues

• Establishing a quota system to ensure the hiring of Black workers

• To ask local school systems if they wanted integration.

Which African American group was involved with the Albany Movement?

• CORE

• Interstate Commerce Commission

• Montgomery Improvement Association

• SNCC

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I have a Dream" speech is associated with the

• Montgomery bus boycott

• March on Washington, D.C.

• "Letter from the Birmingham Jail"

• Eulogy given at teh funeral of Martin Luther King, Sr.

The March on Washington was intended to

• Support the passage of a Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Extend the Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Integrate the Washington, D.C. public schools

• Honor the memory of slain civil rights workers

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?

• It named Black principals at previously all-white schools

• It gave more state tax money to schools that did not integrate

• Ended segregation of all public facilities and ended discrimination in the workplace

• It provided armed escorts for students wanting to attend white schools

Who promoted the following improvements for the city? First African American Mayor of Atlanta, he increased programs for the arts, and he addressed the need to expand the airport.

• Ivan Allen Jr.

• Maynard Jackson

• Sam Massell

• Andrew Young

What was the most unexpected thing Lester Maddox did as governor of Georgia?

• Started the lottery and HOPE scholarship

• Decreased funding to public schools and the arts

• Changed the state flag to remove the Confederate symbols

• Appointed more African Americans to state boards than all prior governors combined

What event was the MOST significant in Andrew Young's political career?

• He was involved in the stock market after he left the ministry

• He was the youngest African American Governor to be elected in Georgia

• He was the first African American to graduate from the University of Georgia

• He was the first African American since Reconstruction to be elected to the House of Representatives from Georgia