Chapter 282. Reflections on The Second Reconstruction, Chapter 28

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Correct. The answer is a. The author’s main point in this section of the chapter is that the civil rights movement’s campaigns to promote integration and equality in the South motivated Lyndon Johnson to break with the New Deal tradition and enact federal legislation that reformed the Jim Crow system, but African Americans’ more radical protests against racial injustice unleashed a powerful white backlash.

Incorrect. The answer is a. The author’s main point in this section of the chapter is that the civil rights movement’s campaigns to promote integration and equality in the South motivated Lyndon Johnson to break with the New Deal tradition and enact federal legislation that reformed the Jim Crow system, but African Americans’ more radical protests against racial injustice unleashed a powerful white backlash.

Correct. The answer is d. The author describes civil rights groups’ mobilization of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August 1963 to support her argument that activists who worked at the local level hoped to win the federal government’s support for their goals.

Incorrect. The answer is d. The author describes civil rights groups’ mobilization of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August 1963 to support her argument that activists who worked at the local level hoped to win the federal government’s support for their goals.

Correct. The answer is a. The author uses the example of Stokely Carmichael’s rejection of integration and assimilation and his call for “black power” as evidence to support her argument that civil rights protest took a more radical turn in the second half of the 1960s.

Incorrect. The answer is a. The author uses the example of Stokely Carmichael’s rejection of integration and assimilation and his call for “black power” as evidence to support her argument that civil rights protest took a more radical turn in the second half of the 1960s.

Correct. The answer is b. The author argues that the emergence of the black power movement stemmed from the combination of heightened activism and the slow pace of change.

Incorrect. The answer is b. The author argues that the emergence of the black power movement stemmed from the combination of heightened activism and the slow pace of change.

Correct. The answer is b. The author argues that Johnson had been working unsuccessfully to pass federal open housing laws, but that his efforts only succeeded in the wake of King’s assassination. The Civil Rights Act of 1968 banned racial discrimination in housing and jury selection, and authorized federal intervention when states failed to protect civil rights workers from violence.

Incorrect. The answer is b. The author argues that Johnson had been working unsuccessfully to pass federal open housing laws, but that his efforts only succeeded in the wake of King’s assassination. The Civil Rights Act of 1968 banned racial discrimination in housing and jury selection, and authorized federal intervention when states failed to protect civil rights workers from violence.

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