Nonviolent Protest

Question 1

Which best describes the response of authorities in Birmingham, Alabama, to civil rights protests in the 1960s?

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They sometimes used violence to resist the protests.

Question 2

Which was the result of a bomb that exploded at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham?

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Four young girls were killed.

Question 3

Which occurred when James Meredith applied to the University of Mississippi?

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He was blocked from enrolling.

Question 4

A civil rights activist who was shot and killed because of his efforts to register African American voters was

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Medgar Evers.

Question 5

What did Martin Luther King Jr. do as a call for action in Birmingham in 1963?

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He wrote a letter describing the violence African Americans faced.

Question 6

Why did Governor Wallace resist enrolling African Americans in the University of Alabama?

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He thought integration was a states’ rights issue.

Question 7

Which word best describes the response of the public to the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on September 15, 1963?

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outrage

Question 8

Eugene “Bull” Connor, the commissioner of public safety in Birmingham in the 1960s,

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led a violent crackdown on civil rights protests.

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