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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the historic Brown vs. Topeka, Kansas Board of Education Supreme Court decision handed down?
(a) April 1, 1955.
(b) March 17, 1957.
(c) May 17, 1954.
(d) December 1, 1955.

2. Who were the primary people who led the movement exemplified by eating at lunch counters next to Caucasians?
(a) African American men.
(b) African American college students.
(c) African American business-persons.
(d) African American women.

3. What group organized the first integrated group of interstate travelers?
(a) MIL.
(b) NAACP.
(c) NUL.
(d) CORE.

4. What city in Tennessee had a race riot on February 23, 1960?
(a) Chattanooga.
(b) Nashville.
(c) Bristol.
(d) Jackson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What president ordered federal marshals dispatched by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy?

2. What was the date of James Farmer's trip from Washington, D.C., to the South?

3. What religious journal contained a summary of Dr. King's book Stride Toward Freedom?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the three reasons that blacks gave when asked why they did not expect the Montgomery Bus Boycott to succeed?

2. What happened on December 5, 1955?

3. When Rosa Parks was asked why she did not move from her seat on the bus, what did she answer?

4. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," how did the African American's awareness of the struggle for freedom in a worldwide realm help to account for a new sense of dignity?

5. According to "Speech Before the Youth March for Integrated Schools," what did King describe as "the face of the future"?

6. According to "Speech Before the Youth March for Integrated Schools," what would "this generation" not take?

7. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," what is the primary reason for bringing an end to racial discrimination?

8. According to King's speech "Our Struggle," what were blacks asking for as part of the "southern pattern"?

9. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," why is racial injustice a national, and not a sectional, problem?

10. What was ironic about King's entry into the Crozer Theological Seminary in September of 1948?

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