Rights and protest practice questions.

State which organisation Martin Luther King Jr. helped found and led from 1957 to coordinate nonviolent civil rights activism.

• The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
• The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
• The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
• The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

Answer: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

King co-founded and led the SCLC in 1957; the NAACP predated him, and SNCC and CORE were separate organisations with different roles in the movement.

Which event is most associated with the 1965 campaign for voting rights and the crossing of the Edmund Pettus Bridge?

• The Selma to Montgomery marches
• The Birmingham desegregation campaign
• The Freedom Rides
• The Greensboro sit-ins

Answer: The Selma to Montgomery marches

The Selma to Montgomery marches, including 'Bloody Sunday' at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, dramatised the demand for voting rights and helped secure the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Determine which leader introduced reforms in 1990, including unbanning the ANC and releasing Nelson Mandela, that began the dismantling of apartheid.

• F. W. de Klerk
• P. W. Botha
• Hendrik Verwoerd
• Desmond Tutu

Answer: F. W. de Klerk

President F. W. de Klerk unbanned the ANC and freed Mandela in 1990; Verwoerd and Botha were earlier architects and defenders of apartheid, and Tutu was a clergyman-activist, not a head of government.

The Civil Rights Act of ______ outlawed discrimination based on race, colour, religion, sex or national origin in the USA.

Answer: 1964

The Civil Rights Act of 1964, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, outlawed discrimination and segregation. It was followed by the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which protected African American voting rights.

Nelson Mandela was released from prison in ______ and later became South Africa's first democratically elected president.

Answer: 1990

Mandela was released on 11 February 1990 after 27 years of imprisonment. Apartheid was dismantled in the early 1990s, and in 1994 Mandela became South Africa's first democratically elected president.

Complete: The 1965 US law that removed barriers such as literacy tests and authorised federal oversight of registration was the ______ Rights Act. (one word)

Answer: Voting

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed discriminatory voting practices and empowered federal supervision, following events such as the Selma marches.