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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did white racists bomb on September, 9 1957?
(a) Dr. King's home.
(b) Montgomery Bus Headquarters.
(c) The conference site for the MIA.
(d) Hattie Cotton Elementary School.

3. Less than a week after the Youth March for Integrated Schools, a black youth was lynched. What was the name of this black youth?
(a) Marcus Garvey.
(b) Mack Parker.
(c) Clarence Mitchell, Jr.
(d) Ernest Green.

4. What was the name of the first African American to challenge interstate travel bans?
(a) Stokely Carmichael.
(b) Emmett Till.
(c) Thurgood Marshall.
(d) T. McCants Stewart.

5. What Illinois city approved a plan that prevented the erection of an interracial housing development on December 21, 1959?
(a) Chester.
(b) Hamilton.
(c) Deerfield.
(d) Du Quoin.

6. What date did the Montgomery buses become integrated?
(a) December 21, 1956.
(b) October 21, 1957.
(c) December 21, 1957.
(d) October 21, 1956.

7. What was the name of the man whose daughter was the focus behind the Brown vs. Board (1954) court case?
(a) Reverend Oliver Brown.
(b) Charles M. Brown.
(c) Dr. Kenneth K. Brown.
(d) Stuart O. Brown.

8. What month did Dr. King address the First Annual Institute on Non-Violence and Social Change?
(a) April.
(b) June.
(c) December.
(d) September.

9. What was the name of the high school that nine black children attended under surveillance of federal troops, in Arkansas?
(a) Wesclin High School.
(b) Triad High School.
(c) Central High School.
(d) Centralia West High School.

10. What was the date of James Farmer's trip from Washington, D.C., to the South?
(a) May 4, 1961.
(b) May 4, 1955.
(c) May 4, 1958.
(d) May 4, 1968.

11. How many students participated in the first march in Washington, D.C., supporting racial desegregation?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 500.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 5,000.

12. What does NUL stand for?
(a) National Uniform League.
(b) National Urban League.
(c) Necessary Under Law.
(d) Ninth Unity League.

13. What did the civil rights bill, signed on September 9, 1957, establish?
(a) U.S. Civil Rights Commission.
(b) Equality for All Commission.
(c) Anti-Racial Commission.
(d) Self-Determination for Activists Commission.

14. What was James Farmer's position with CORE?
(a) National Director.
(b) Account Manager.
(c) Regional Supervisor.
(d) Vice President.

15. How many federal marshals were dispatched by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy?
(a) 200.
(b) 400.
(c) 600.
(d) 500.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the first march supporting racial desegregation held in Washington, D.C.?

2. Why were organizations such as NAACP and the NUL formed?

3. What major movement followed the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Sit-In Movement?

4. What laws did African American interstate travelers ignore during their public transportation across state lines?

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

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