Civil Rights

1 The purpose of the 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi was to protest the escalation of the Vietnam War help and encourage blacks to become registered voters force the Interstate Commerce Commission to declare segregated transportation facilities unconstitutional persuade the state legislature to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment desegregate schools 2 Malcolm X advocated all of the following except blacks should separate themselves from whites blacks should be proud of their blackness and their African roots blacks should rely on nonviolence and should earn their freedom by passive resistance blacks should control their own destinies blacks should reject Christianity and embrace Islam 3 Which of the following statements about Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech to the 1963 Washington civil-rights rally is correct? It spurred the U.S. Congress to immediately approve Pres. Kennedy's civil rights bill it was a failure because the turnout at the rally was poor and it came at the end of a long and hot day of lengthy speeches it was dramatically interrupted when a white racist shot King as he spoke on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial it turned a political rally into a historic event and recalled the nation to the ideals of justice and equality it was ignored by the media 4 Between 1964 and 1968 some urban blacks around the country expressed their reaction to the civil rights movement by looting, rioting and destroying property launching the most vigorous voter-registration drive in American history organizing a series of mass demonstrations and marches that paralyzed city affairs for days at a time staging sit-ins at banks in order to get more loans for black-run businesses none of the above 5 Which of the following events is out of chronological order? Brown v. Topeka Board of Education decision Montgomery Bus Boycott Desegregation of Little Rock's Central High School Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Watts Riots