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What did the caption read on the front page of the Birmingham News that celebrated mayoral victory? (from New Day in Birmingham)

"New Day Dawns for Birmingham."

"Our Hope is Here in Birmingham."

"Mayor for Birmingham is Elected."

"Bull Connor Revisits Birmingham."

Why does MLK say the Easter season was chosen as the time for direct-action? (from Letter from Birmingham Jail)

Because it helped the Negro community to remember their ties with God.

Because besides Christmas it is the main shopping period of the year.

Because it was symbolic of Jesus rising on Easter morning.

Because it was the time after the election.

Jesse Jackson states that MLK knew where the key to unlocking American apartheid was. It was not where? (from Afterword)

The Mayor's office.

The local city hall offices.

The Governer's office.

The White House.

Jesse Jackson states that if he were to write a "Freedom Symphony" the first movement would be what? (from Afterword)

The Civil War.

Columbus coming to the new world.

The end of slavery.

The Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock.

MLK tells the clergymen in his letter that anyone who lives where can never be considered an outsider?" (from Letter from Birmingham Jail)

The state of Alabama.

The earth.

Any of the southern states.

The United States.

10)

What did the city commissioners, including Bull Connor, refuse to do after the results of the run-off vote? (from New Day in Birmingham)

Congratulate the winner.

Acknowledge the people that voted for them.

Move out of their City Hall offices.

Embrace the newly elected Mayor.

11)

What is defined as a movement that changes both people and institutions? (from The Summer of Our Discontent)

A campaign.

A coholition.

A democracy.

A revolution.

12)

MLK states that "academic freedom is a reality today" because who practiced civil disobedience? (from Letter from Birmingham Jail)

Socrates.

Aristotle.

Plato.

Archelaus.

13)

The eighth requirement of a volunteer's pledge required the volunteer to refrain from the violence of fist, tongue, or what? (from New Day in Birmingham)

Sword.

Heart.

Soul.

Knife.

14)

What city was the night-club comic performing in when he joked that if the demonstrators had been served, they wouldn't have been able to pay for their meals? (from The Days to Come)

Greensboro, North Carolina.

Nashville, Tennessee.

Columbia, South Carolina.

Savannah, Georgia.

15)

Who offered up their apartment for the revolution/campaign leaders to meet in in New York City? (from Bull Connor's Birmingham)

Wyatt Walker.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Harry Wagner.

Harry Belafonte.

16)

MLK mentions a white businessman who asks if he's "just imagining it" or what? (from The Summer of Our Discontent)

Or are Negroes "walking a little straighter these days?"

Or are Negroes "following a planned path to freedom?"

Or are Negroes "really sure they are our equals?"

Or are Negroes "willing to fight until the death?"

17)

Who was the person during an interview of the Indian government's Prime Minister who asked, "But isn't that discrimination?" when the Prime Minister said that their schools were required to accept an untouchable over another person of high caste? (from The Days to Come)

Lawrence Reddick.

John F Kennedy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jesse Jackson.

18)

How did some of the spectators of the nonviolence acts react when they saw police brutality? (from Black and White Together)

By helping up the beaten marchers.

By turning their backs on the non-violent marchers.

By throwing rocks and bottles.

By yelling and threatening the police officers.

19)

In Jesse Jackson's afterward to the book he talks about seeing an African-American boy where? (from Afterword)

In San Francisco.

In Chicago.

In New York City.

In Dallas.

20)

Jesse Jackson feels that no child should do what without having read this book? (from Afterword)

Apply to college.

Graduate from high school.

Say the Pledge of Allegiance.

Sing the National Anthem.

22)

What is the dream that came true for MLK that he mentions at the end of "Black and White Together"? (from Black and White Together)

The city of Birmingham discovered a conscience.

The city of Birmingham wanted to take down their Jim Crow signs.

That Bull Connor resigned peacefully from office.

Bull Connor discovered that he had been overreacting about the Negro community.

23)

MLK describes having to tell his six-year-old daughter something with stammered speech. What is it he's talking about having to tell "your" six-year-old daughter? (from Letter from Birmingham Jail)

That she can't eat at a regular lunch counter.

That she can't drink from a normal water fountain.

That she can't go to a public park.

Why white people beat the Negro people.

24)

MLK describes hate-filled youth that murdered a Negro boy while he was out doing what? (from The Summer of Our Discontent)

Playing kickball with some friends.

Eating an ice cream cone.

Riding his bicycle.

Kicking a can around the neighborhood.

25)

Who did MLK hope would have been in the running of the run-off vote? (from Bull Connor's Birmingham)

Boutwell and King.

King and Conner.

Boutwell and Conner.

King and Walker.

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