Question 1

Why is the decade of the 1950s known as the era of prosperity and prejudice?

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Question 2

What was the relationship between the NAACP strategy regarding graduate education and grade-school education? How did the organization change its strategy over time?

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Question 3

Why were the sit-ins organized? What results did the sit-ins achieve?

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Question 4

How do events at Little Rock High School in 1957 reveal the approach to civil rights practiced by the Eisenhower administration? How did Little Rock shape the civil rights movement?

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Question 5

An all-white jury acquitted the two men who lynched Emmett Till in __________.

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Question 6

In 1944 the Supreme Court decided in the case of __________ v.Allwright that white primaries unconstitutional.

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Question 7

The relationship of __________ __________ to the civil rights movement is akin to the relationship of mother to children.

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Question 8

On August 28, 1963 nearly 250,000 marchers gathered before the __________Memorial to support the civil rights bill and the movement at large.

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Question 9

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned discrimination in places of __________ accommodation, including restaurants, hotels, gas stations, and entertainment facilities, as well as schools, parks, playgrounds, libraries, and swimming pools.

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Question 10

The response of white southerners to the Brown decision was massive __________.

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Question 11

What challenges did the civil rights movement experience in 1963? What strategies did King choose to utilize?

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Question 12

Both President _________ and President Kennedy took decisive action in their responses to challenges to their authority during the civil rights movement.

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Question 13

The Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR)led by the Rev.Fred __________ orchestrated campaigns of boycotts,pickets,and demonstrations during the civil rights movement.

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Question 14

What was the relationship between Martin Luther King,Jr.,and the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

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Question 15

How does the life of Rosa Parks reflect the African-American experience during the era?

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Question 16

Why did the lynching of Emmett Till take place? What effect did it have on the civil rights movement?

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Question 17

Why were blacks disappointed with the Civil Rights Act of 1957?

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Question 18

White Citizen's __________ formed in numerous southern cities after the Brown decision to "preserve the southern way of life."

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Question 19

The backlash of the __________ decision on the NAACP included the closing of over 200 of its branches.

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Question 20

How did people outside the city of Montgomery assist with the boycott?

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Quiz 21: The Freedom Movement