26. Document Project 26: Freedom Summer

Quiz for Document 26.8 Fannie Lou Hamer, Address to the Democratic National Convention Credentials Committee, 1964

Quiz for Document 26.8: Fannie Lou Hamer, Address to the Democratic National Convention Credentials Committee, 1964

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. What does Fannie Lou Hamer’s address demonstrate about civil rights workers in 1964?

They were predominantly white Northerners.

They faced fear and violence from the local authorities.

They used prison as a way to garner local press attention.

They wanted to integrate the southern schools.

2. Why would President Lyndon Baines Johnson want to take attention away from Fannie Lou Hamer’s speech during the Democratic National Convention?

He believed it was false testimony.

He thought it too violent for television.

He was worried it was bad for his reelection.

He did not want to encourage such inflammatory speech.

3. According to Hamer, why was she arrested?

For inciting violence

Because she registered voters

For assaulting an officer

For disobeying segregation ordinances

4. How was Hamer’s experience reflective of the broader civil rights movement?

Only African Americans like Hamer were activists.

All African Americans who registered to vote faced arrest and violence.

The civil rights movement reflected a peaceful transition with little violence.

Activists all faced threats of violence and arrest regardless of their color or actions.

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