3.06 Quiz: Other Paths

Which organization worked to improve the situation for blacks in the 1940s?

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

What were blacks hoping for following their service in World War II?

An end to Jim Crow laws.

Which of the following advertisements would have been illegal after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

B

What was one technique used by black and white activists to call attention to their demands?

Bus trips through the South promoting civil rights.

What was King's dream?

Equality for all.

What effect did the demonstrations and marches in Selma in March of 1965 have on the civil rights movement?

Five months later, Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act and the number of black voters in the South rose.

Whose actions did not challenge the racial status quo during the 1940s?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

How did the federal government respond when the governor of Arkansas refused to allow black students to enroll in Little Rock's Central High School?

President Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort and protect the students.

Which was not a hardship African Americans experienced in the years preceding World War II?

Problems marrying one another.

Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, and food stamps were __________.

Programs created as part of Johnson's Great Society.

What was the outcome of the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education?

Public schools that separated students by race had to make changes.

Which is not an example of white resistance to desegregation?

Sending the poorest white students into black schools.

Which phrase describes the treatment blacks received in the years before World War II?

Separate and unequal.

Which is one way that life changed for many black Americans following World War II?

The lure of jobs took many to the North.

Why had some black leaders taken a more militant approach to civil rights by 1965?

They believed King's approach to demanding civil rights was too cautious and the pace of change too slow.

What did blacks hope to gain by boycotting the buses in Montgomery, Alabama?

They hoped to use economic pressure to end segregation on the buses.

Why did SNCC and CORE send hundreds of volunteers south during the Freedom Summer campaigns?

To help register hundreds of thousands of black voters in Mississippi.