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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 8- Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What president ordered federal marshals dispatched by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy?
(a) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) Dwight D. Eisenhower.

2. What laws did African American interstate travelers ignore during their public transportation across state lines?
(a) Minority Travel Limitations.
(b) Uncle Tom.
(c) Jim Crow.
(d) White Flight.

3. What religious journal contained a summary of Dr. King's book Stride Toward Freedom?
(a) Renounced.
(b) Common Threads.
(c) Liberation.
(d) Believe.

4. Why were organizations such as NAACP and the NUL formed?
(a) To form anti-government organizations.
(b) To form violent organizations legally.
(c) To resist Jim Crow laws.
(d) To make people angry.

5. When was the first march supporting racial desegregation held in Washington, D.C.?
(a) October 25, 1955.
(b) December 5, 1955.
(c) October 25, 1958.
(d) December 5, 1957.

Short Answer Questions

1. What demonstration was held at Rainbow Beach in Chicago?

2. What county, on June 26, 1959, closed its entire school system rather than allow integration?

3. When did Dr. King write the "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"?

4. How many students marched toward the Alabama State Capitol Building in Montgomery?

5. What was the name of one of the first integrated group of interstate travelers that later served as Dr. King's chief strategists?

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