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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Kennedy sign the Civil Rights Racial Discrimination Bill?

2. Which comedian join the marches in Greenwood?

3. What do the police use on the students to keep them out of the downtown area?

4. Where is the SCLC convention?

5. Whose house did King go to after a rally in Los Angeles?

Short Essay Questions

1. What changes does Megdar Evans try to implement in Jackson, Mississippi?

2. Why is the Washington march so important to the movement?

3. How does the city respond to the Albany Movement's manifesto?

4. How does Kennedy create the Voter Education Project?

5. How does Moses react to the sheriff attacking him in Chapter 13?

6. What problems does Moses have in Mississippi?

7. How does the Albany Movement try to recover its momentum in this chapter?

8. What does the New Orleans article accuse O'Dell of?

9. How do the Freedom Riders enrage the Albany sheriff?

10. How do the police prevent the D-Day marches from entering downtown?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did President Kennedy represent great hope for Afro-Americans? How did his death affect the Afro-American community? How do you think things would have been different if President Kennedy had lived?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the famous people Branch depicts in the book and examine his or her impact on the Civil Rights Movement.

1) What were his or her beliefs?

2) How did he or she communicate his or her beliefs to the public?

3) What impact did he or she have on the Civil Rights movement?

Essay Topic 3

Why was it the right time to boycott the buses? How did the black community spread the word that they were boycotting the buses? How did the media respond to the bus boycott?

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