500 Questions Quiz

it prevented the protesters from destruction of property and similar illegal acts

it was supported by important historical precedents

it won and held the sympathy of the general public

it gave the protesters the full protection of the First Amendment

it contrasted with the violent methods of the segregationists

He posted the Arkansas National Guard at Little Rock High School to bar African-American students from entering

He closed down Little Rock public schools for the 1958-1959 school year

He petitioned the White House to overturn Brown w. Board of Education.

He worked with others to establish private schools for white students

He spoke out publicly against forced integration.

the sit-ins were intended to desegregate lunch counters throughout the South

The protesters remained in their seats for hours at a time when they were refused service.

segregationists jeered at the protesters, threw things at them, and physically attacked them

The Supreme Court repeatedly upheld the legality of the the sit-ins

The sit-ins were the result of careful planning by experienced leaders of the Civil Rights movement.

It made segregation illegal in all public places.

It overturned state laws forbidding marriage between African Americans and whites

It banned racial, gender, religious, and ethnic discrimination by any employer

It allowed the federal government to sue public school systems that did not comply with integration.

It outlawed the creation of certain petty obstacles to voting in federal elections.

King invoked the Declaration of Independence at the speech's climax

King spoke from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, thus invoking the Emancipation Proclamation

King alluded to Marian Anderson's historic 1939 concert

King's appearance drew a huge, racially mixed audience of supporters of the Civil Rights movement

King expressed his intention to run for president of the United States

to fund the legal defense of people arrested when they defied the segregated-seating policies on buses

to protest the school busing movement that arose from attempts to integrate the public school system

to force the interstate bus companies to abandon their whites-only hiring policies

to integrate facilities in bus terminals on interstate bus routes

to transport volunteers to the South to help register black voters

The movement alienated the sympathy of the middle class.

The movement was largely made up of middle-class people.

The movement reinvigorated the support of the middle class.

The movement angered the middle class by excluding women.

The movement turned racial hostility into class warfare.

It led to a Supreme Court decision that segregation on public transit was unconstitutional.

It was the first major legal victory of the movement.

It directly inspired the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

It provoked Alabama segregationists into acts of illegal violence.

It was responsible for desegregating public places.

Buddha

Confucius

Mahatma Gandhi

Mohammed

Joseph Stalin

police violence against peaceful protesters in Selma, Alabama

the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

incumbent president lyndon Johnson's defeat of Senator Barry Goldwater

the formation of the National Organization for Women (NOW)

a wave of race riots in Detroit, Los Angeles, and Newark

He integrated the U.S. military.

He ended racial segregation in the federal bureaucracy.

He signed the GI Bill of Rights into law.

He signed the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act into law.

He ordered the desegregation of the public schools.

Medgar Evers

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Jesse Jackson

Thurgood Marshall

Clarence Thomas

It provided a working example of integration to the general public on an everyday basis.

It proved that African Americans were great athletes and great sportsmen.

It placed baseball's notorious antitrust exemption in jeopardy.

It equalized conditions between the major leagues and the Negro League

It marked the first participation of black athletes on a U.S. Olympic team.

the public school system could remain segregated as long as black schools continued to be equal in facilities to the white schools

segregation could not be permitted in any educational institution in the United States

African-American schools must be improved until they were truly equal to white schools

all aspects of the U.S. government and the individual state governments must be desegregated, including the school system

segregation in the public schools was unconstitutional, inherently discriminatory, and actively harmful to African Americans

They were determined to win the right to vote.

They wanted to show their pride in their African ancestry.

Islam required its adherents to take Arabic names

Their old names had originally been those of their enslaved ancestors masters.

They did not believe in nonviolent resistance to oppression

They believed that the Republican Party would better represent their interests.

They believed that the time for peaceful resistance had passed.

They did not support the programs of the Great Society.

They were outraged over the U.S. military's treatment of black soldiers and sailors.

They resented the national attention being given to the women's movement.