Where did Malcolm X attract an especially large following?
Northern urban ghettoes
When Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, he was
supporting a municipal garbage workers' strike in Memphis.
What factor helped to spark the new wave of feminism in the late 1960s and early 1970s?
An escalating number of women performing paid jobs in the workplace
Which of the following statements characterizes the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
It initially organized peaceful demonstrations using civil disobedience.
Why did the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organize the Freedom Rides in 1961?
To integrate interstate transportation in the South
What made the Community Action Program (CAP) the most controversial part of the War on Poverty programs?
It required the maximum feasible participation of the poor it proposed to help.
Why were women of color critical of white women's feminist organizations?
White feminists ignored the poverty faced by many minority women.
How did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 transform southern politics?
It empowered the federal government to intervene directly to enable African Americans to register and vote.
What was the event that sparked a larger movement to end discrimination against gay men and lesbians in 1969?
A police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York City
What 1969 event became the most dramatic action taken by militant Indians in the United States?
Local Indian activists' seizure and occupation of Alcatraz Island
Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta organized the Chicanos primarily to achieve
improved conditions of migrant farmworkers in California.
The Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) that accused criminals were entitled to
a lawyer.
Like black nationalist organizations, La Raza Unida
made cultural pride and brotherhood a central part of its agenda.
How did the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren expand the Constitution's promise of equality and individual rights?
It supported an activist government.
By 1966, the civil rights movement in the United States
was no longer committed to nonviolence.
What was an important goal of the American Indian Movement in the 1960s?
The establishment of survival schools to teach Indian history and values
What did the Medicare program provide?
Universal compulsory insurance for the elderly
How did the Civil Rights Act of 1968 address racial equality?
Through a ban on discrimination in housing and jury selection
What was the end result of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty?
It did not significantly redistribute total national income.
In the 1960s, the members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
wanted to mobilize a New Left around the goals of civil rights, peace, and universal economic security.
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