Reading Quiz - The Political Response

Question 0

JFK didn’t want to anger…?

Answer 0

Southern Democratic senators

Question 1

Dr. King’s wife?

Answer 1

Coretta Scott King

Question 2

Thurgood Marshall

Answer 2

Future Supreme Court justice; joined United States Circuit Court under Kennedy.

Question 3

Civil rights leader

Answer 3

Medgar Evers: gunned down hours after Kennedy’s broadcast responding to Birmingham brutality; NAACP field secretary in Mississippi

Question 4

Charged for murder of Evers

Answer 4

Byron de la Beckwith; two hung juries couldn’t decide, so was set free; convicted after case was reopened

Question 5

Kennedy’s bills?

Answer 5

Banned discrimination wherever federal funding was involved

Prohibited segregation in public places

Advance school desegregation

Question 6

March on Washington

Answer 6

Civil rights leaders proposed it to focus national attention on Kennedy’s bill; august 1963; more than 200,000 people came from all over country to call for “jobs and freedom” (official slogan of march

Question 7

Director of March on Washington

Answer 7

A. Philip Randolph

Question 8

March of Washington speech?

Answer 8

Dr. King - I have a dream; Kennedy watched on tv; civil rights bill remained stalled in congress

Question 9

Three months after March of Washington

Answer 9

King assassinated
Kennedy assassinated
Civil rights bill not much closer to passage
Lyndon Johnson = new president and able to move legislation along

Question 10

Filibuster

Answer 10

Tactic in which senators prevent a vote on measure by taking the floor and refusing to stop talking

Question 11

Cloture

Answer 11

Everett Dirksen supported it (enlisted by Johnson to support it); a three-fifths vote to limit debate and call for a vote

Question 12

June 1964

Answer 12

Senate voted for cloture; bill passed with support from both democrats and republicans

Question 13

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 13

Impact on voting, schools, and jobs.

Provisions:
1) Title I banned use of different voter registration standards for blacks and whites

2) Title II prohibited discrimination in public accommodations, such as motels, restaurants, gas stations, theaters, and sport arenas
3) Title VI allowed withholding of federal funds from public or private programs that practice discrimination
4) Title VII banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, or national origin by employers and unions, and also created Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to investigate charges of job discrimination

Question 14

Freedom Summer

Answer 14

Organized voter registration drive in Mississippi; white (mainly college students) and blacks volunteered

Question 15

There civil rights workers go went missing?

Answer 15

James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner

Question 16

MFDP

Answer 16

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Question 17

Delegate of MFDP

Answer 17

Fannie Lou Hamer

Question 18

Protected voting rights

Answer 18

Voting Rights Act of 1965- federal officials could register voters in places where local officials were blocking registration by African Americans; eliminated literacy tests and other barriers

Question 19

24th Amendment

Answer 19

Outlawed pill tax (was still being used in southern states to keep poor African Americans from voting)