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Question #1
When the first phase of the freedom rides ended in violence, ________ of SNCC took up the torch and continued the rides.
A.   Diane Nash
B.   James Forman
C.   Ella Baker
D.   James Lawson
Question #2
Although black residents constituted almost half of Mississippi’s population, less than __________ were registered to vote.
A.   35 percent
B.   10 percent
C.   5 percent
D.   20 percent
Question #3
Late in September 1961, a white member of the Mississippi legislature shot and killed __________, a black Amite County resident who had helped register rural black Mississippians to vote.
A.   Fannie Lou Hamer
B.   Herbert Lee
C.   James Bevel
D.   Bob Zellner
Question #4
When plantation worker Fannie Lou Hamer tried to register to vote, she lost her job and her home and was __________.
A.   attacked by a white mob outside of her county courthouse
B.   kidnapped by the Ku Klux Klan
C.   run out of the state of Mississippi
D.   severely beaten in jail
Question #5
In Albany, Georgia, the conflicts between King’s leadership style and __________ broke into the open.
A.   SCLC’s church-based strategy
B.   SNCC’s grassroots-driven organizing strategy
C.   CORE’s emphasis on direct action
D.   White Citizens Councils
Question #6
The author of the 1963 series of essays The Fire Next Time who captured the growing militancy of many black Americans was __________.
A.   James Baldwin
B.   Ralph Ellison
C.   Harry Belafonte
D.   Richard Wright
Question #7
Some SNCC workers such as Stokely Carmichael challenged Bob Moses’s 1964 Summer Project because it __________.
A.   would require a federal response that was beyond the political will of the Johnson administration
B.   failed to account for the direct action tactics that had been so successful for SNCC in the past
C.   ignored the strategies and tactics of older groups like the NAACP
D.   would undermine the development of self-reliant local black leadership
Question #8
The 1964 Summer Project garnered national attention when __________.
A.   project organizers managed to register thousands of new voters
B.   three civil rights workers were murdered
C.   President Johnson visited organizers in the Mississippi Delta
D.   the media discovered that so many white kids involved in the project
Question #9
In 1964, ________ broke with the Nation of Islam and formed the Organization of African-American Unity (OAAU).
A.   Medgar Evers
B.   Malcolm X
C.   Cassius Clay
D.   Elijah Muhammad
Question #10
Within days of President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act into law, the arrest of a black man in Los Angeles __________.
A.   focused the attention of civil rights activists on the cities of the West
B.   led to the first application of the new law
C.   touched off several days of deadly rioting
D.   slowed implementation of the new legislation
Question #11
Increasingly frustrated with the pace of the movement, the militant Stokely Carmichael decided to work with black leaders in rural Alabama to form the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, which became more commonly known as the __________.
A.   Alabama Republican Party
B.   Lowndes Project
C.   Alabama Freedom Democratic Party
D.   Black Panther Party

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