Modern Georgia: Civil Rights Question Preview (ID: 36001)


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What BEST describes the ruling of the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education?
a) Public schools should be desegregated.
b) Public schools should be segregated.
c) Public schools should be closed.
d) Public schools should be governed only by the states.

The pressure put on by King's March on Washington forced Congress into the passage of this law that put the full weight of the federal government behind ending segregation.
a) Civil Rights Act of 1964
b) Affordable Care Act
c) Fourteenth Amendment
d) Equal Rights Amendment

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. favored bringing about social change through
a) nonviolent protest
b) infiltrating the two major political parties and winning elections.
c) warfare.
d) armed takeover of the government.

Why was the St. Andrew's Cross, also known as the stars and bars of the Confederacy, incorporated into a new state flag in 1956?
a) It was a symbol of southern white resistance to change following the Brown decision.
b) It was because it was a favorite symbol of the governor.
c) it was to help encourage the Olympics to come to Atlanta.
d) It was added because a majority of Georgia voters chose it.

What Civil Rights organization involved young people in nonviolent protests like the sit-ins that gave birth to this group in 1960?
a) SNCC
b) NAACP
c) SCLC
d) NCAA

The Sibley Commission is most correctly associated with
a) school desegregation
b) the Olympics
c) the lunch counter sit-ins
d) the Montgomery Bus Boycott

The first nonviolent protest led by Martin Luther King, Jr. were in this city.
a) Montgomery, AL
b) Atlanta, GA
c) Albany, GA
d) Memphis, TN

In January of 1961, Charlayne Hunter an Hamilton Holmes became Civil Rights heroes when they did what?
a) They were the first African American students admitted to the University of Georgia.
b) The were the first legal interracial marriage in Georgia.
c) They were killed during the Albany Movement protests.
d) They were the first African Americans elected to Congress from Georgia.

This system of disfranchisement lasted until 1946 and it kept African Americans from voting in the Democratic primary in Georgia.
a) white primary
b) Jim Crow
c) grandfather clause
d) literacy test

Which of the following BEST explains why the Albany Movement ultimately failed to achieve its goals?
a) King and the organizers attempted to do to much at one time.
b) The protesters were met with violent opposition from Albany city police and the National Guard.
c) The president sent troops to break the strikes.
d) King was not involved in planning the Albany Movement.

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