Answer the Following Questions

question 26

Multiple Choice

Answer the following questions :
-La Raza Unida

• A)The conviction that individuals require government protection from discrimination.This version of liberalism was promoted by the civil rights and women's movements and focused on identities-such as race or gender-rather than the general social welfare of New Deal liberalism.
• B)Civil rights organization founded in 1942 in Chicago by James Farmer and other members of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR)that espoused nonviolent direct action.In 1961 this group organized a series of what were called Freedom Rides on interstate bus lines throughout the South to call attention to blatant violations of recent Supreme Court rulings against segregation in interstate commerce.
• C)System of racial segregation in the South that lasted a century,from after the Civil War until the 1960s.
• D)A prominent black trade union of railroad car porters working for the Pullman Company.
• E)The 1947 report by the Presidential Committee on Civil Rights that called for robust federal action to ensure equality for African Americans.President Truman asked Congress to make all of the report's recommendations-including the abolition of poll taxes and the restoration of the Fair Employment Practice Committee-into law,leading to discord in the Democratic Party.
• F)A breakaway party of white Democrats from the South,formed for the 1948 election.Its formation shed light on an internal struggle between the civil rights aims of the party's liberal wing and southern white Democrats.
• G)A group founded by World War II veterans in Corpus Christi,Texas,in 1948 to protest the poor treatment of Mexican American soldiers and veterans.
• H)A Latino civil rights group founded in Los Angeles in 1947,which trained many Latino politicians and community activists,including Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta.
• I)Supreme Court ruling that overturned the "separate but equal" precedent established in Plessy v.Ferguson in 1896.The Court declared that separate educational facilities were inherently unequal and thus violated the Fourteenth Amendment.
• J)Yearlong boycott of this city's segregated bus system in 1955-1956 by the city's African American population.The boycott brought Martin Luther King Jr.to national prominence and ended in victory when the Supreme Court declared segregated seating on public transportation unconstitutional.
• K)After the Montgomery Bus Boycott,Martin Luther King Jr.and other civil rights leaders formed this organization in 1957 to coordinate civil rights activity in the South.
• L)A student civil rights group founded in 1960 under the mentorship of activist Ella Baker.The group initially embraced an interracial and nonhierarchical structure that encouraged leadership at the grassroots level and practiced the civil disobedience principles of Martin Luther King Jr.As violence against civil rights activists escalated nationwide in the 1960s,the group expelled nonblack members and promoted "black power" and the teachings of Malcolm X.
• M)On August 28,1963,a quarter of a million people marched to the Lincoln Memorial to demand that Congress end Jim Crow racial discrimination and launch a major jobs program to bring needed employment to black communities.
• N)Law that responded to demands of the civil rights movement by making discrimination in employment,education,and public accommodations illegal.It was the strongest such measure since Reconstruction and included a ban on sex discrimination in employment.
• O)Party founded in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964.Its members attempted to attend the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City,New Jersey,as the legitimate representatives of their state,but Democratic leaders refused to recognize the party.
• P)Law passed during Lyndon Johnson's administration that empowered the federal government to intervene to ensure minorities' access to the voting booth.
• Q)A major strain of African American thought that emphasized black racial pride and autonomy.Present in black communities for centuries,it periodically came to the fore,as in Marcus Garvey's pan-Africanist movement in the early twentieth century and in various organizations in the 1960s and 1970s,such as the Nation of Islam and the Black Panther Party.
• R)A religion founded in the United States that became a leading source of black nationalist thought in the 1960s.Black Muslims preached an apocalyptic brand of this religion,anticipating the day when Allah would banish the white "devils" and give the black nation justice.
• S)A militant organization dedicated to protecting African Americans from police violence,founded in Oakland,California,in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.In the late 1960s the organization spread to other cities,where members undertook a wide range of community-organizing projects,but the Panthers' radicalism and belief in armed self-defense resulted in violent clashes with police.
• T)An organization that sought self-determination for Puerto Ricans in the United States and in the Caribbean.Though immediate victories for the group were few,their dedicated community organizing produced a generation of leaders and awakened community consciousness.
• U)A union of farmworkers founded in 1962 by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta that sought to empower the mostly Mexican American migrant farmworkers who faced discrimination and exploitative conditions,especially in the Southwest.
• V)A Mexican American civil rights organization founded in 1967 and based on the model of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.This Mexican American civil rights organization focused on legal issues and endeavored to win protections against discrimination through court decisions.
• W)Founded in Texas in 1970 by Mexican Americans as an alternative to the two major political parties,the organization ran candidates for state governor and other local government positions in the 1970s.It was an expression of the Chicano/a movement and its attempts to create political unity among American citizens of Mexican descent.
• X)Organization established in 1968 to address the problems Indians faced in American cities,including poverty and police harassment.The group organized Indians to end relocation and termination policies and to win greater control over their cultures and communities.

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