It maintained that segregation would remain in American’s public schools if the local communities voted in support of it.

 

It proclaimed that the notion of “separate but equal” violated the Fourteenth Amendment.

 

It required local municipalities to provide additional funding to ensure segregated schools were of equal quality.

 

It required all local board of education decisions to be approved by outside overseers.

 

A federal court ruled that the governor had to admit the African American students. President Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort the African American students into the school past angry protestors.

 

President Eisenhower backed Arkansas governor Orval Faubus’s wish to delay integration due to the overwhelming public backlash.

 

President Eisenhower approved a federal grant to essentially bribe the Arkansas governor to allow integration to happen smoothly.

 

The federal government had little to do with the integration of Central High School other than the legal requirement that the school be integrated.

 

The African American community in Montgomery eventually purchased and ran its own private bus company.

 

The local bus companies voluntarily reversed their policies in an effort to bring back their African American customers.

 

The Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation rules were unconstitutional and the boycott was lifted.

 

The boycott ultimately had no effect on changing policies of segregation on public transportation.

 

Civil rights workers were instructed to take up acts of civil disobedience to protest unjust laws in nonviolent ways.

 

Civil rights activists were told to fight for their rights by any means necessary.

 

Civil rights workers were directed to vandalize and deface the properties of known racists.

 

Civil rights activists were told to take no direct actions other than voting for progressive government leaders.

 

Members of the Ku Klux Klan called themselves “Freedom Riders” and travelled throughout the American South capturing, torturing, and lynching African Americans.

 

Members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee traveled by horseback throughout the American South to protest unfair segregation laws pertaining to busses and trains. They called themselves “Freedom Riders”.

 

Members from the Congress of Racial Equality called themselves “Freedom Riders” and rode busses into the American South to test the effectiveness of new anti-segregation laws pertaining to busses and interstate transportation.

 

Members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference called themselves “Freedom Riders” and rode to Washington D.C. to protest the fact that the federal anti-segregation laws were not being enforced.

 

Meredith faced angry protests from students and community members, however the protests were fairly peaceful and subsided within a few days.

 

Meredith was prevented from enrolling or attending the University of Mississippi in person due to the large protests and student opposition. Meredith was forced to complete his degree from home through a distance learning program.

 

Due to the violent opposition to desegregating the school, Meredith had to be escorted by federal marshals in order to both enroll and complete his degree at the University of Mississippi.

 

Surprisingly, Meredith faced hardly any opposition to his enrollment at the University of Mississippi.

 

Kennedy gave an impassioned speech on national television to the American people promoting equality and an end to racial segregation.

 

Kennedy personally drafted a letter of condolences to Evers’s widow.

 

Kennedy proposed new laws ending segregation by the service industry and making discriminatory employment practices illegal.

 

All of the above.

 

Kennedy advocated equality for African Americans, but knew legislation would have to be handled carefully to get through the Southern Democrats in Congress.

 

Kennedy used executive orders to enact groundbreaking civil rights laws without the need for Congress’s approval.

 

Kennedy believed civil rights issues were best left to the individual states.

 

Kennedy did not offer much leadership on civil rights issues.

 

to violently protest the inaction of the federal government in civil rights matters

 

to intimidate federal officials with one of the largest gathering of African Americans in history

 

to demand reparations for the horrors and injustices of slavery

 

to bring together Americans of all backgrounds in a peaceful demonstration of support for Kennedy’s civil rights bill

 

It provided financial bonuses to states that opted to desegregate public schools and public offices.

 

It ended racism in the United States.

 

It outlawed discrimination based upon race, gender, religion, or ethnicity in both employment practices and public affairs.

 

It required all government and business employers to hire one non-white employee for every three new hires.

 

to address barriers that were still preventing African Americans from being able to vote

 

to call for the arrest of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent southern civil rights activists

 

to confront the Selma school district’s refusal to integrate their schools

 

to celebrate the success of the civil rights movement

 

The Black Power movement was unable to gain much support from the African American community, whereas the SCLC and Dr. King’s efforts were widely supported.

 

The Black Power movement was more focused on separating from rather than integrating into what they felt was white American society.

 

The Black Power movement did not have strong leadership.

 

All of the above.

 

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

 

The Ku Klux Klan

 

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference

 

The Black Panther Party

 

News of the assassination was slow to spread which muted the national response.

 

The nation came together to peacefully mourn the loss; the vigils served to unite America across racial lines and calm the racial tensions in American society.

 

Hundreds of American cities experienced violent and destructive riots.

 

All of the above.

 

Throughout his life, Malcolm X advocated that African Americans should take increasingly more radical and violent actions against authority figures and white America.

 

Malcolm X abandoned his earlier racially charged notions of black supremacy and shifted to a focus on promoting self-determination and self-defense within the African American community.

 

Malcolm X shifted his focus from a passionate call for civil disobedience to the encouragement acts of violence and aggression towards the American government.

 

Malcolm X shifted from his initial beliefs in black supremacy to a push for full African American integration into American society.

 

The Equal Pay Act made it illegal for an employer to pay a woman less than a man for performing the same work.

 

Congress added the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution guaranteeing equal rights to all Americans regardless of sex.

 

Women were elected in such large numbers that they took the majority of the seats in the House of Representatives.

 

1972 marked the first time more women were admitted to four-year colleges than men.

 

The farmers stood with civil rights leaders in promoting increased access to legal and voting rights for minorities.

 

The farmers pushed for better trade deals with foreign nations.

 

The farmers wanted higher wages, safer working conditions, and a shorter work day.

 

The farmers wanted federal funding to develop better and more efficient farming technologies.

 

Hispanic American citizens were legally allowed to vote in American federal elections.

 

Hispanic Americans citizens were allowed to run for political office for the first time.

 

Election and voting materials had to be made available in other languages to accommodate Americans who were not fluent in English.

 

American immigrants from the Caribbean as well as Central and South America only had to be residents of the United States for 2 months before being offered citizenship.

 

Congress passed the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 which guaranteed Native Americans’ protection under the United States Constitution and gave Native Americans legal authority over their reservation lands.

 

Native Americans organized under the National Congress of American Indians to help protect their culture and push for political rights.

 

Native American rights groups like the American Indian Movement staged protests and took actions to bring attention to their poor living conditions and lack of equality in American society.

 

All of the above.

 

Native Americans

 

African Americans

 

disabled people

 

unemployed farmers