To achieve victory??

Question

To achieve victory in the struggle for civil rights, Martin Luther King Jr., and other members of the SCLC encouraged a policy of

a. armed confrontation

b. nonviolent protest

c. lawsuits

d. national strikes

SNCC was formed to enable students to

a. use more peaceful tatics than the SCLC

b. shift the civil rights movement to the North

c. make their own decisions about proirities and tactics

d. establish a more interracial organization

Martin Luther King Jr., targeted Birmingham, Alabama, for demonstrations because he considered it

a. the most segregated city in the country

b. a city with very little segregation

c. a city that practiced de facto segragation

d. a city that would welcome an end to segregation

The black power movement taught that African Americans should

a. separtate from white society and lead their own communities

b. strive to end segregation

c. emigrate to Africa

d. use noviolent protest to bring about change

How did the National Urban League help African Americans

a. by helping newcomers to large cities find homes and jobs

b. by providing legal support to defend them in court

c. by providing them with good medical care

d. by helping them to integrate lunch counters.

Answer 1

1. B

As campaigns to desegregate buses began to spread in the South, a group of 60 activists met in Ebenezer Church in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 1957 to discuss the use of nonviolent resistance as the guiding principle for such movements.

2. C

Instead of being closely tied to SCLC or other groups such as the NAACP as a "youth division," SNCC sought to stand on its own.

3. A

A watershed in the civil rights movement occurred in 1963 when Birmingham Civil Rights Movement leader Fred Shuttlesworth requested that Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) come to Birmingham to help end segregation. Together they launched "Project C" (for "Confrontation"), a massive assault on the Jim Crow system. During April and May daily sit-ins and mass marches were met with police repression, tear gas, attack dogs, and arrests. More than 3,000 people were arrested during these protests, many of them children. These protests were ultimately successful, leading not only to desegregation of public accommodations in Birmingham but also the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

4. 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.

"Black power" expresses a range of political goals, from defense against racial oppression, to the establishment of separate social institutions and a self-sufficient economy (separatism), and even racial supremacy and ethnocentric hegemony.

5. A

The National Urban League (NUL), formerly known as the National League of black men and women, is a nonpartisan civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States. It is the oldest and largest community-based organization of its kind in the nation. Its current President is Marc Morial.

Answer 2

1. B

2.A

3. A

4. A

5. A