I. Decide whether the following statements are true or false:
1.
The anti-war teach-in by white students in Berkeley
began the civil rights movement in the 1960s, the first of several
social movements during that decade.
(T / F) Answer:
2. "We shall overcome" is a very famous anti-war song
during the 1960s.
(T / F) Answer:
3.
In the 1960s, three groups—Afro-Americans, Asian
Americans and women—were dissatisfied with their lives.
(T / F) Answer:
4.
During WWII, many American Negroes had a taste
of life by moving to and working in the North.
(T / F) Answer:
5.
When the civil rights movement began, non-violent,
direct action tactics like "sit-ins" and boycotts
were the chief vehicle for social protest.
(T / F) Answer:
6.
A social movement is possible only when there
are organizations, and spontaneous actions.
(T / F) Answer:
7.
Malcolm X became known throughout the Sixties
because of his leadership role in the civil rights movement.
(T / F) Answer:
8.
A great moment for the civil rights movement was
the March on Washington of August, 1963 when one-quarter million
blacks and whites stood together to hear President John F. Kennedy's
famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
(T / F) Answer:
9.
In 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
was organized on Oakland, whose major work was to enforce civil
rights laws.
(T / F) Answer:
10.
The arrest of a CORE organizer at the campus of
University of California at Berkeley touched off the Free Speech
Movement which catapulted Mario Savio to the status of a student
hero.
(T / F) Answer:
11.
Betty Friedan's book The Feminine Mystique
(1963) stirred highly charged responses from thousands of
women who reported from its first year of publication to this
day that it changed their lives.
