Protesting to Demand Rights

Question 1

What were the effects of the Birmingham campaign? Check all that apply.Most of the country ignored the protests in the city.Civil rights laws and integration gained more support.Public places in the city slowly began to desegregate.Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders were arrested.More Americans began to sympathize with the protestors.The resistance to civil rights protests was entirely nonviolent.

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B: Civil rights laws and integration gained more support.; C: Public places in the city slowly began to desegregate.; D: Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders were arrested.; E: More Americans began to sympathize with the protestors.

Question 2

Protestors worked to protect voting rights guaranteed in the to the Constitution.

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C: 15th Amendment

Question 3

In 1965 civil rights leaders led a march from to Montgomery.

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A: Selma

Question 4

In 1950 of African Americans ages 25–29 had earned a college degree.

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A: less than 5 percent

Question 5

In 1963 civil rights leader was killed for helping African Americans register to vote in Mississippi.

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A: Medgar Evers

Question 6

It took before protestors were able to complete the march.

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A: three attempts

Question 7

In 1970, about of African Americans ages 25–29 had earned a college degree.

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B: 10 percent

Question 8

Freedom Summer was a voter registration campaign held in in 1964.

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C: Mississippi

Question 9

The march and the response to it helped bring about .

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A: the Voting Rights Act

Question 10

From 1970 to 2010, the number of African American college graduates .

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B: increased

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