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Quiz for Document 27–3: George E. McMillan, Sit-Downs: The South’s New Time Bomb, 1960

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. Why did it appear to McMillan in 1960 that a gradual phasing out of Jim Crow segregation was unlikely to take place in the South?

African Americans had demonstrated again and again that they lacked the patience for such due process.

The federal government did not know how it could accommodate the demands of African Americans.

The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education had proven that change was best when it came quickly.

Southern whites were adamantly opposed to any changes in their social order and “local customs.”

2. What did McMillan believe was necessary to improve the racial situation in the South?

Migration of African Americans out of the South

Elections that allowed African Americans to vote

Widespread nonviolent protests

Federal government intervention

3. In McMillan’s view, how did the South change during the twentieth century?

Industrialization brought more progressive racial attitudes to the South.

The mechanization of agriculture further eroded economic prospects for African Americans.

Diversification of the southern economy left the white population’s traditional view of race undisturbed.

The great migration of African Americans to other regions had eased racial tensions in the South.