Civil Rights Revolution (lesson 16)

Which of the following was not a feature of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s philosophy?

African Americans must not pursue complete racial equality too quickly; before they attain that, they must first prove their worthiness to all America.

Which of the following was not the setting for a major campaign of the civil rights movement?

Dallas

From the mid-1950s through the mid-1960s, the civil rights movement stayed focused solely on desegregation efforts, defering the quest for voting rights to another day.

FALSE

Signed by 96 members of Congress in 1956, the Southern Manifesto welcomed the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision as an overdue assertion of federal power over the authority of the states. (Doc: Southern Manifesto)

FALSE

The Greensboro lunch counter sit-in campaign of 1960 represented the first major defeat for the civil rights movement.

FALSE

Which of the following was not a characteristic of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s?

In local campaigns across the South, women remained more or less on the margins of civil rights activism.

Which of the following was not an argument raised in the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling (Doc: United States Supreme Court, Brown v. Board of Education decision)?

Segregation laws can be constitutional only if approved by a majority of voting citizens in the state where they are enacted.

In his speech at a black church at the outset of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Dr. Martin Luther King assures his listeners their protests are consistent with the doctrines of the Constitution and of Christian scripture. (Doc: Martin Luther King, Jr., Address to Mass Meeting in Montgomery)

TRUE

The emerging civil rights challenge to Jim Crow drew encouragement from Cold War rhetoric presenting America as a bastion of freedom and democracy.

TRUE

Which of the following questions was not a focus of debate within the civil rights movement?

Whether it's worth crusading to eliminate Jim Crow.