Author Question: Which grassroots civil rights group petitioned for the right to be seated as delegates at the ... (Read 71 times)

james0929 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

On April 4, 1967 Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech at Riverside Church that expressed which sentiment?

A) lack of federal mandates to desegregate housing
B) a call for violence and armed resistance
C) criticism towards poor minorities' involvement in Vietnam
D) the failure to end segregation on military bases

Question 2

Which company manufactured the napalm jelly that was responsible for burning, killing, and maiming people in Vietnam?

A) Scripto
B) Procter and Gamble
C) Dow
D) Johnson & Johnson

Question 3

Bloody Sunday refers to which of the following events?

A) violent race riot in Detroit, Michigan
B) demonstration in Selma, Alabama
C) assassination of President Kennedy
D) bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

Question 4

Who was responsible for ordering attacks on protestors, delegates, and reporters with tear gas and billy clubs at the 1968 Democratic National convention in Chicago?

A) Spiro Agnew
B) George McGovern
C) Richard Daley
D) Rennie Davis

Question 5

Which grassroots civil rights group petitioned for the right to be seated as delegates at the Democratic National Convention in 1964?

A) the White Citizens Council
B) the John Birch Society
C) the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
D) the Neighborhood Youth Corps