In which state did Freedome Riders encounter violent resistance?

Question

a. Michigan

b. California

c. Alabama

d. West Virginia

How did President Kennedy respond to the riot over James Meredith's admission to the University of Mississippi?

a. He ignored the riot

b. He blamed civil rights activists

c. He condemned the university but did not interfere with local officials

d. He sent army troops to restore order and protect Meredith.

After the war, the African American civil rights movement

a. lost its main leaders

b. focused on suing the military.

c. accelerated

d. made few gains until the 1960's

At first, President Kennedy moved slowly on cibil rights issues to avoid

a. promoting the Freedom Rides

b. offending southern Democratic senators

c. unpstting Martin Luther King Jr.

d. embarrassing Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.

Unlike the early civil rights leaders, Malcom X believed strongly that

a. the reaces should be separated

b. African Americans should copy whites

c. schools should be fully integrated

d. African Americans should move to Mecca

Answer 1

1.) c

In Anniston, Alabama, a mob attacked the Greyhound bus and slashed its tires. When the crippled bus had to stop several miles outside of town, it was firebombed by the mob chasing it in cars. [1] As the bus burned, the mob held the doors shut, intent on burning the riders to death. An exploding fuel tank caused the mob to retreat, allowing the riders to escape the bus. The riders were viciously beaten as they fled the burning bus, and only warning shots fired into the air by highway patrolmen prevented the riders from being lynched.

2.) d

On October 1, 1962, he became the first black student at the University of Mississippi,[2] after being barred from entering on September 20. His enrollment, virulently opposed by segregationist Governor Ross Barnett, sparked riots on the Oxford campus, which required federal troops and U.S. Marshals, who were sent by President John F. Kennedy.

3.) c

4.) b

As President, Kennedy initially believed the grassroots movement for civil rights would only anger many Southern whites and make it even more difficult to pass civil rights laws through Congress, which was dominated by Southern Democrats, and he distanced himself from it. As a result, many civil rights leaders viewed Kennedy as unsupportive of their efforts.

5.) a

Black Power is a movement among black people throughout the world, especially those in the United States. Most prominent in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the movement emphasized racial pride and the creation of black political and cultural institutions to nurture and promote black collective interests, advance black values, and secure black autonomy.

Answer 2

c - especially in Montgomery,Al IIRC

d

d

b

a - a stance he dropped after visiting Mecca