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14.3 Practice



Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 

 1. 

A philosophy of racial pride that urged African Americans to create their own institutions was called
a.
Black Power.
c.
civil disobedience.
b.
integration.
d.
desegregation.
 

 2. 

Who was the first African American student to enter the University of Mississippi?
a.
George Wallace
c.
James Meredith
b.
Ella Baker
d.
Ross Barnett
 

 3. 

Police used fire hoses against civil rights demonstrators in
a.
New Orleans, Louisiana.
c.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
b.
Birmingham, Alabama.
d.
Little Rock, Arkansas.
 

 4. 

Malcolm X, an important voice for some African Americans, was a leader of
a.
Freedom Summer.
c.
Black Power.
b.
the Black Muslims.
d.
the Black Panthers.
 

 5. 

What great leader was assassinated on April 4, 1968?
a.
Malcolm X
c.
Stokely Carmichael
b.
James Meredith
d.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
 

Completion
Complete each statement.
 

 6. 

Sit-ins helped launch a new civil rights group, the ___________________________________.
 

 

 7. 

____________________ buses are those that cross state lines.
 

 

 8. 

Two ____________________ from the South confronted federal power while attempting to prevent integration.
 

 

 9. 

On ____________________, more than 200,000 people marched in Washington, D.C.
 

 

 10. 

President ____________________ signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
 

 

Matching
 
 
Match each item with the correct statement below.
a.
sit-in
d.
"We Shall Overcome"
b.
Freedom Riders
e.
Ella Baker
c.
Freedom Summer
 

 11. 

summer of 1964
 

 12. 

act of protesting by sitting down
 

 13. 

organizer of SNCC
 

 14. 

CORE members
 

 15. 

civil rights anthem
 

Short Answer
 

 16. 

What group did the Freedom Riders belong to?
 

 17. 

In what document did Dr. King respond to a group of white clergy who wanted him to stop his desegregation efforts?
 

 18. 

What philosophy did SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael advance?
 

 19. 

Who was the field secretary for the NAACP who was murdered in Jackson, Mississippi in June 1963?
 

 20. 

What was the name of the campaign in the summer of 1964 to help African Americans register to vote?
 



 
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