26. Document Project 26: Freedom Summer

Quiz for Document 26.7 White Southerners Respond to Freedom Summer, 1964

Quiz for Document 26.7: White Southerners Respond to Freedom Summer, 1964

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. What did the Charleston Post claim was one of the real goals of the Freedom Summer?

To indoctrinate Negroes into the National Council of Churches faith

To occupy Mississippi schools and spread liberal ideologies

To spread Communist beliefs throughout Mississippi

To end voter discrimination in Mississippi

2. Considering the context of the Cold War, to what fear does the author play in his article?

The Red scare

Nuclear warfare

Soviet invasion

World War III

3. Which of the following phrases reveals the author’s views on the Freedom Summer project?

“Helping the Negro improve himself”

“Summer invasion”

“Civil rights for Negroes”

“Concentration of wealth”

4. How is the author reflective of the common ideals of his era?

He hoped to see equality between the races.

He supported outside interference in the South.

He was condescending toward African Americans.

He encouraged the spread of communism in the United States.

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