QUIZ 8 HIST

In his Letter from Birmingham City Jail, Martin Luther King Jr:

Declared his willingness to break unjust laws

Because of the overall prosperity of the decade, blacks were able to close the income gap with whites by the end of the 1950s.

False

During the 1950s, the black population in the North decreased as a result of the great migration.

False

President Johnson labeled his overall program of domestic reform the:

Great Society

Beginning with Watts, the major race riots of 1965 and 1966:

Occurred largely in urban areas

The Civil Rights Acts of 1964:

Outlawed segregation in public facilities.

When Alabama governor George Wallace was ordered by federal marshals to stand aside from the doorway at the University of Alabama so that black students could enter, Wallace

Stood aside

Violence erupted in 1962 when James Meredith attempted to integrate:

The University of Mississippi

The protest tactic initiated by black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, was

The sit-in

The Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 began after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat o the bus to a white man.

True