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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 demonstration was held at Rainbow Beach in Chicago?

2. What did white racists bomb on September, 9 1957?

3. What two organizations denounced violent actions relating to desegregation acts?

4. What city was the home to the beginning of the movement exemplified by eating at lunch counters next to Caucasians when it began February 1, 1960?

5. When did Dr. King celebrate his thirty-first (31) birthday?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the reasons that King's trip to India kept getting put off?

2. What happened on December 1, 1955, to initiate the forward movement of the Civil Rights Movement?

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

4. According to "Speech Before the Youth March for Integrated Schools," why was it difficult for young people to realize the effectiveness of nonviolence in the Civil Rights Movement?

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

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

8. What happened on December 5, 1955?

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

Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote "Letter From a Birmingham Jail" while serving a sentence for participating in a civil rights demonstration. Discuss the importance of his actual writing from jail. What did this act prove to those involved in the civil rights act? Did this letter help to show his determination or did it hinder his part in the movement?

Essay Topic 3

Some may come to misunderstand the collaboration of a movement that pursues inclusion (the Civil Rights Movement) while celebrating individuality of a race (The Black Power Movement). Examine how these two "movements" can live in harmony even though they, by definition, are very different. Discuss the different attributes of each movement and their similarities. How do their differences speak to their ability to be cohesive?

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