I stand tonight facing west on what was once the last frontier. . . . From the lands that stretch three thousand miles behind me, the pioneers of old gave up their safety, their comforts and sometimes their lives to build a new world here in the West. .
John F. Kennedy
Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal. . . . Segregation and poverty have created the racial ghetto and a destructive environment totally unknown to most Americans."�National Advisory Commission on Civil Di
unfamiliar with urban poverty.
The Equal Pay Act, sponsored by the Kennedy administration, aimed to benefit which working group most?
women
In some parts of the South we work in the fields from sunup to sundown for $12 a week. In Albany, Georgia, nine of our leaders have been indicted not by Dixiecrats but by the federal government for peaceful protest. But what did the federal government do
civil rights advocates cannot expect the federal government to promote justice.
Which of the following is an example of nonviolent protest?
Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her bus seat
The Montgomery bus boycott became a model for the civil rights movement of the early 1960s because it showed that
nonviolent protest by ordinary people could bring about change.
The challenge of the next half century is whether we have the wisdom to use that wealth to enrich and elevate our national life, and to advance the quality of our American civilization. . . . [W]e have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich soc
introduce his domestic program.
The lunch counter "sit-ins" were meant to
draw attention to segregation and challenge the law.
According to this map, there were no laws specifically addressing segregation in
New Hampshire.
This image represents a shift in the civil rights movement from
civil rights to economic issues.
How did the protests at Birmingham and the March on Washington bring about the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
They helped swing public opinion in favor of civil rights legislation.
The Edmund Pettus Bridge, in Selma, AL, became a symbol of
the determination of the civil rights movement.
The importance of television in the presidential election of 1960 suggested that
voters might be swayed by appearances rather than by issues.
We who are demonstrators are trying to raise what we call the 'moral issue.' That is, we are pointing to the viciousness of racial segregation and prejudice and calling it evil or sin. . . . [We are also] asserting, 'get moving.' The pace of change is to
happening too slow
The nonviolent protest shown here was one way activists called attention to
businesses that did not treat customers equally.
Alan B. Shepard's accomplishment as the first American in space best symbolized
a victory in the Cold War confrontation with the Soviet Union
Job Corps was created as a part of the
Economic Opportunity Act.
In the absence of constitutional authority and without legislative action, an ambitious federal government, employing naked and arbitrary power, has decided to deny us the right of self-determination in the conduct of the affairs of our sovereign state..
the federal government is exercising too much authority over the states.
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference...have outlined 5 requirements of the bill of economic and social rights that will set poverty on the road to extinction:
1. A meaningful job at a living wage for every employable citizen.
2. A secure and adeq
The poor people's campaign
The violence committed against nonviolent Freedom Riders forced
the desegregation of interstate transportation.
[W]hen you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes w
segregation must end immediately.
Integration . . . has been based on complete acceptance of the fact that in order to have a decent house or education, blacks must move into a white neighborhood or send their children to a white school. This reinforces the notion . . . that 'white' is a
for economic advancement and better schools.
The decision in Tinker v. Des Moines (1969), in which high school students sued after being suspended for wearing black armbands in protest against the Vietnam War, further defined
free speech in a publicly funded institution under the First Amendment.
First, this is not a method for cowards; it does resist. The nonviolent resister is just as strongly opposed to the evil against which he protests as is the person who uses violence. His method is passive or nonaggressive in the sense that he is not phys
Resistance should not mimic the action it is protesting.
I heard all of this screaming and . . . somebody yelled, 'Oh God, they're killing us!' . . . And I looked and I saw the troopers charging us . . . swinging their arms and throwing canisters of tear gas. . . . Some of them had clubs and others had ropes a
Selma, AL
Which of the following is an indicator of the success of the Civil Rights movement in influencing government?
Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
According to the map, the Freedom Ride that resulted in the largest number of people being arrested or jailed began on which day in 1961?
May 17
Before running for governor of Georgia, Lester Maddox protested the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by closing down his restaurant to show that
he refused to accept integration.
According to the chart, the Twenty-fourth Amendment was passed in order to
increase participation in the political process.
The integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, followed which landmark Supreme Court case?
Brown v. Board of Education
Sweatt v. Painter laid the groundwork for the later efforts of the civil rights movement because it
showed that "separate but equal" was unconstitutional.
...Thanks to the Justice Department [JD] case, the registration test had been simplified somewhat. Although it still included interpretation of a section of the Mississippi constitution, the registrar had to choose from 14 sections selected by the JD rat
politicians used voter literacy tests to disqualify African Americans from voter registration.
...We will never communicate talking one language and he's talking another language. He's talking the language of violence...Let's learn his language. If his language is with a shotgun, get a shotgun. If he only understands the language of a rifle, get a
Martin Luther King's style of protest
It is important that the reasons for my action be understood by all our citizens. . . . A foundation of our American way of life is our national respect for law. . . ."�President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957
Which action was Eisenhower discussing in this a
sending federal troops to Little Rock to support desegragation
Based on the national election data, it can be inferred that in the 1960s
many voters were not attracted by either party and switched to the Independant
Which U.S. President desegregated the military by executive order?
Harry Truman
In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny . . . and I say . . . segregation today . . . segregation tomorrow . . . segregation forever.
The Washington,
The races should be separated in all aspects of public life.
In the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, the two countries struggled to be the first to
send a human being to the moon.
The decision in the landmark Supreme Court case Sweatt v. Painter involved segregation in
higher education (college level).
According to the information in this chart, which state saw the greatest percent increase in registered African American voters after passage of the Voting Rights Act?
Mississippi