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Nonviolent Protest

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24 August 2022
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The Universities of Alabama and Mississippi were able to integrate because
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c. the federal government became involved.
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The main goal of the Freedom Summer campaign was
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c. registering African Americans to vote
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How were the initial sit-ins during the Birmingham Campaign of 1963 received?
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c. Many people paid little attention to them.
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What role did the media play during the Birmingham protests?
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c. The media informed the rest of the country.
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A result of the media showing the United States the violence against peaceful protestors in Birmingham was
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b. the passing of civil rights legislation
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Why did Governor Wallace resist enrolling African Americans in the University of Alabama?
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a. He thought integration was a states' rights issue.
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Which best describes the response of authorities in Birmingham, Alabama, to civil rights protests in the 1960s?
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a. They sometimes used violence to resist the protests.
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During the Children's Crusade in Birmingham in May of 1963,
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c. the police used fire hoses on protesters.
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Euguene "Bull" Connor, the commissioner of public safety in Birmingham in the 1960s,
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d. led a violent crackdown on civil rights protests
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What did Martin Luther King Jr. do as a call for action in Birmingham in 1963?
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d. He wrote a letter describing the violence African Americans faced.