Author Question: Rural America A. lost nearly 10 percent of its population in 1956 alone. B. both nearly lost ... (Read 147 times)

formula1 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Martin Luther King Jr. was leader of the

A. United Negro Improvement Association.

B. Congress of Racial Equality.

C. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

D. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

E. Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Question 2

The Montgomery bus boycott of 19551956

A. was sparked by a beating of an African American woman.

B. was ruled illegal by the Supreme Court.

C. led to the creation of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).

D. failed to end the segregation policies on public city buses.

E. marked the emergence of an effective form of racial protest.

Question 3

All of the following statements regarding poverty in America between 1950 and 1960 are true EXCEPT that

A. the percentage of the population living in poverty rose during the decade.

B. many rural Americans lived on the margins of the affluent society.

C. more than 30 million Americans lived in poverty at any given time during the year 1960.

D. Native Americans were the single poorest group in the country.

E. most of the poor experienced poverty only temporarily.

Question 4

Rural America

A. lost nearly 10 percent of its population in 1956 alone.

B. both nearly lost 10 percent of its population in 1956 alone, and saw its percentage of the national income drop to less than two percent within the decade of the 1950s.

C. saw its percentage of the national income drop to less than 2 percent in the 1950s.

D. All these answers are correct.

E. saw the South increase plantings of cotton as a cash crop in the 1950s.