Author Question: One of the reasons race riots broke out in the mid-1960s was that: a. segregation laws denied ... (Read 44 times)

Mollykgkg · **on:** Sep 11, 2019

Question 1

The Watts Riot (1965) revealed that many African Americans:

a. were willing to reject nonviolent protest.
b. could not vote even outside the South.
c. felt the police would not protect them from angry mobs of whites.
d. believed they could not become part of middle-class America until residential segregation ended.

Question 2

One of the reasons race riots broke out in the mid-1960s was that:

a. segregation laws denied black people access to most public facilities.
b. the decline of unskilled jobs led to increased unemployment.
c. whites feared that black people were abandoning northern cities.
d. the federal government had shown no interest in black people's problems.