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

2. What month did Dr. King address the First Annual Institute on Non-Violence and Social Change?

3. Where did Dr. King move days after his thirty-first birthday?

4. At some points, how did Dr. King help to keep the SCLC's cash flow problems from shutting down due to financial ruin?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. According to "Speech Before the Youth March for Integrated Schools," why should new graduates become dedicated fighters for civil rights?

4. According to "Speech Before the Youth March for Integrated Schools," what did the march demonstrate to him?

5. According to King's speech "Our Struggle," why did he think that white people thought blacks deserved (and enjoyed) second-class status?

6. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," what two fronts must the African American work on during the period of social change?

7. According to King's speech "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," why had some African Americans become cynical and disillusioned?

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

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

10. According to King's speech "Our Struggle," why did many black men lose their self-respect?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the sermons/speeches used for I Have A Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World. Discuss the importance of the sermon/speech's inclusion. Why is it important to have this speech/sermon serving as part of the whole? Why did you choose this sermon/speech as the most important of the text?

Essay Topic 2

Dr. King was adamant about fighting for civil rights in a non-violent way. On the other hand, Robert Williams (Chapter 6; local president of the NAACP) choose violence as the way to freedom. Compare and contrast the non-violent and violent acts and their ability to work/or not towards the cause.

Essay Topic 3

What role did Martin Luther King, Jr., have in the Civil Rights Movement? What were his titles and his involvement within each title? How did King use his influence to possess each leadership role?

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