Modern Georgia II Question Preview (ID: 41494)
Georgia Since 1954.
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. What BEST describes the ruling of the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education?
a) The separate but equal policy was unconstitutional.
b) Schools should be segregated.
c) Black schools should get more money to catch up to white schools.
d) Blacks should attend white schools if seats in classrooms were available.
Martin Luther King, Jr. attended what Atlanta University?
a) Morehouse College
b) University of Georgia
c) Georgia Tech
d) Yale University
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. favored bringing about social change through
a) nonviolence
b) armed takeover of the government.
c) infiltrating the two major political parties and winning elections.
d) warfare.
Why was the St. Andrew’s Cross, also known as the “stars and bars” of the Confederacy, incorporated in 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 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 protest like the sit-ins that gave birth to this group in 1960?
a) SNCC
b) SCLC
c) NAACP
d) NCAA
The Sibley Commission is most correctly associated with
a) school desegregation
b) voting rights
c) the Montgomery Bus Boycott
d) March on Washington
What BEST characterizes the findings of the Sibley Commission?
a) Most Georgians favored closing all public schools to integrating them.
b) Most Georgians favored integrating all public schools.
c) Most Georgians thought the state General Assembly should take control of all public schools.
d) Most Georgians favored following federal desegregation plans.
Who was the first black mayor of Atlanta?
a) Maynard Jackson
b) Andrew Young
c) Jimmy Carter
d) Ivan Allen, Jr.
As mayor of Atlanta, he expanded the airport and changed hiring practices to increase the number of black contractors awarded bids from the city.
a) Maynard Jackson
b) Ivan Allen, Jr.
c) Jesse Jackson
d) Andrew Young
Where did Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his “I Have a Dream Speech?”
a) Washington, DC
b) Atlanta, GA
c) Mershon, GA
d) Albany, GA
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