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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, The Meredith March, 'Black Power', and the Chicago Open-Housing Protests, 1966.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What organization was formed in Albany to fight racism?
(a) The Albany Movement.
(b) Students for Change.
(c) The Southern Christian Coordinating Committee.
(d) NAACP.

2. Stanley Levison was connected to what party?
(a) Communist Party.
(b) Socialist Party.
(c) Republican Party.
(d) Libertarian Party.

3. A picture appeared in national newspapers showing what, which spread word of the violence in Selma?
(a) A police officer beating a black child.
(b) Police dogs attacking a group of activists.
(c) The ruins of a bombed black church.
(d) The sheriff using a billyclub on an older black woman.

4. Where did the Meredith March end?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Canton.
(d) Selma.

5. What did Meredith want to encourage with this walk?
(a) Black voter turnout.
(b) Black poverty.
(c) Ending bus segregation.
(d) The war in Vietnam.

Short Answer Questions

1. King demanded that Birmingham hire how many black police officers?

2. What did the package delivered to the King home contain?

3. Why was the first meeting about the bus boycott somewhat disastrous?

4. The grand jury in St. Augustine said they would agree to form a biracial committee after the Civil Rights activists did what?

5. Demonstrations began in which state to test the compliance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

(see the answer key)

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