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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was their a rivalry between SNCC and the NAACP?

2. At the meeting with Kennedy, the President told King to distance himself from whom?

3. Who made a speech on the day before the march that upset the White House?

4. Where was King when a grand jury began handing out indictments against MIA leaders for breaking laws against unlawful boycotts?

5. The first federal Civil Rights Act did what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was King sentenced to four months in jail?

2. What did John and Robert Kennedy do for King? How did this come about?

3. How did the city of Montgomery react to the bus boycott?

4. What racial discrimination did King face at Crozer?

5. What did the white merchants do in Birmingham after the protests began?

6. Why did Kennedy refuse to meet with King? How did the Kennedy Administration feel about the planned march in Washington?

7. Why did activists see Albany as a good place to fight racial inequality?

8. In August, King was arrested. Why was he arrested? What effects did the arrest have?

9. Why did the protests in Birmingham not get off to the start that King wanted?

10. What occurred in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960? How did King become involved?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the relationship between King and Abernathy. Compare and contrast the men and their ideas about the Civil Rights Movement. Did any tensions exist between the men? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott? How did this protest begin? What influence did the boycott have on the Civil Rights Movement? Was the boycott successful? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

How did the Vietnam War influence the Civil Rights Movement? How did King feel about the war? Why did he believe that the war contributed to the riots in the US in the 1960s?

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