Civil Rights Movement Quiz
Quiz #7. Civil rights movemnt. 2009. Yeah.
- 1.In 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka case determined that
- A.
All registered voters have a right to vote
- B.
Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal and, therefore, unlawful
- C.
All residents have a right to a college education
- D.
Hiring in school’s must guarantee that no teacher will be discriminated against by race
- 2.Rodger Streitmatter, as do many historians, cites the Civil Rights Movement as
- A.
A political movement that was spurred by extensive newspaper coverage
- B.
Ill-timed, and would have been less violent if activists had waited a few years
- C.
The first great television news story
- D.
A political movement that was spurred by effective public relations techniques
- 3.NBC correspondent John Chancellor said that with respect to the Civil Rights Movement, journalism does not initiate social change, but journalism
- A.
Can amplify social change
- B.
Can destroy movements by overexposure
- C.
Can set the record straight on who did what to whom
- D.
Can exaggerate the impact of social activists
- 4.In the summer of 1957, African-American leaders targeted Central High School for desegregation with the enrollment of nine Black students. This took place in
- A.
New Orlenas, La.
- B.
Tupelo, Miss.
- C.
Birmingham, Ala.
- D.
Little Rock, Ark.
- 5.The above action is regarded as the first chapter of television’s epic coverage of the movement because
- A.
It lead to a rapid change in school district policy on segregation
- B.
It turned what otherwise would have been a local story into a national news story
- C.
It was the first news story presented in full color, not just black and white
- D.
It gave Martin Luther King a forum for his beliefs
- 6.The most dramatic image that emerged from the Central High School desegregation effort was
- A.
The brutal treatment of a petite, 15-year-old Black girl by redneck segregationists
- B.
The relative calm that greeted a young Black male student as he approached local police at the school
- C.
The fire bomb that exploded on the school bus as the students entered the school
- D.
The lynching by a mob of two of the nine students
- 7.The first time that Charlayne Hunter-Gault, later of the New York Times and a Public Broadcasting Service correspondent, made the news was when
- A.
She was one of the two African Americans first admitted to the Univ. of Georgia.
- B.
She defied a court order to leave a lunch counter in a segregated cafe.
- C.
She refused to ride in the back of a bus in Selma, Ala.
- D.
She shot a White Southerner who tried to assault her
- 8.The racially mixed group of college students and civil rights activists who rode buses from the North into segregated Southern communities was known as
- A.
Carpet baggers
- B.
Abolitionists
- C.
Freedom riders
- D.
Justice journeyers
- 9.Police Commissioner “Bull” Connor held great influence over the town considered the most segregated city in America in the early 1960s. That city was
- A.
Tupelo, Miss
- B.
Birmingham, Ala.
- C.
Little Rock, Ark.
- D.
New Orleans, La.
- 10.That same city became the target in 1963 for what one activist hoped would be a series of supposed nonviolent protests. The person was
- A.
Jesse Jackson
- B.
Andrew Young
- C.
Thurgood Marshall
- D.
Martin Luther King
- 11.Media images of Bull Connor’s use of police dogs and high-pressure fire hoses to subdue protestors, many of them children, led to a reaction from the public elsewhere. They reacted by
- A.
Expressing embarrassment, but doing little else
- B.
Flooding the White House with phone calls for action
- C.
Organizing public marches of support in 40 cities around the country
- D.
Calling their Congressional representatives, asking for federal intervention
- 12.A massive demonstration and march took place in August 1963 with some 200,000 protestors whose actions were televised by all three networks. That event took place
- A.
Near Camp David where the President was staying
- B.
In the nation's capital
- C.
In New York City, the media capital of the country
- D.
in Selma, Ala., in the heart of Dixie
- 13.It was during this same massive march that the Rev. Martin Luther King delivered his
- A.
I’ve been to the mountaintop” speech
- B.
"i have a dream" speech
- C.
Last speech
- D.
First televised speech
- 14.In the DVD we viewed, the Edmund Pettis Bridge that Martin Luther King and his demonstrators crossed was in
- A.
Jacksonville, Miss.
- B.
Athens, Ga.
- C.
Knoxville, Tenn.
- D.
Selma, Ala.
- 15.The other key piece of legislation that followed the Civil Rights Act was the
- A.
Affirmative Action Act of 1966
- B.
Equal Protection Act of 1965
- C.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
- D.
Faith, Family & Freedom Act of 1966
- 16.The United States’ initial involvement in Vietnam began
- A.
In the late 1960s with Pres. Johnson
- B.
In the late 1950s with Pres. Eisenhower
- C.
In the early 1960s with Pres. Kennedy
- D.
In the early 1950s with Pres. Truman
- 17.In 1954, Vietnam was divided in half. The north was
- A.
Communist controlled and based in Hanoi
- B.
Democratically controlled and based in Hanoi
- C.
Democratically controlled and based in Saigon
- D.
Communist controlled and based in Saigon
- 18.In 1964, North Vietnamese patrol boats fired on U.S. destroyers in a Vietnamese gulf location. This attack led to a Congressional action known as
- A.
The Viet Cong Retaliation Resolution
- B.
The Port of Hanoi Resolution
- C.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
- D.
The Resolution of Vietnamese Sovereignty
- 19.By war’s end after more than 10 years, how many U.S. men and women died in the war?
- A.
5,000
- B.
8,000
- C.
58,000
- D.
1 to 3 million
- 20.By war’s end after more than 10 years, how many estimated Southeast Asians died in the war?
- A.
5,000
- B.
8,000
- C.
58,000
- D.
1 to 3 million
- 21.By 1972, two out of three U.S. citizens named which medium as their main source of news
- A.
Television
- B.
Magazines
- C.
Newspapers
- D.
Radio
- 22.Through 1967, most news coverage of the war was favorable. However, what event in 1968 turned the coverage into one that was more critical?
- A.
The Tet Offensive
- B.
The Hanoi bombing
- C.
The Tonkin Offensive
- D.
The Cu Chi firefight
- 23.The most controversial story of the early years of the war was by Morley Safer of CBS who covered events in the village of Cam Ne. That story showed
- A.
American soldiers in full retreat after an ambush
- B.
Bombers strafing rice paddies in the Mekong Delta
- C.
American soldiers being shot at by Vietnamese children
- D.
American soldiers burning down 150 houses by using their "Zippo" lighters
- 24.The Viet Cong offensive during their Lunar New Year holiday in 1968 was
- A.
A military failure by U.S. troops
- B.
A military failure by North Vietnam
- C.
A military failure by South Vietnamese troops
- D.
a military success for the Viet Cong
- 25.In effect, what the televised news about the above offensive did to U.S. policy was
- A.
To give comfort to U.S. troops and their commanders to “stay the course”
- B.
To damage peace negotiations between North and South Vietnamese
- C.
To cause severe damage to the credibility of the Lyndon B. Johnson administration
- D.
To bolster the resolve of the American public to win the war
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