At the time of his death, President John Kennedy's civil rights bill
a. had been passed, much to the satisfaction of African Americans.
b. had been passed, but greatly weakened by amendments.
c. seemed to be stalled in Congress.
d. was on the desk waiting to be signed into law.
e. was locked in a filibuster in the U.S. Senate.
Answer: E
The Stormy Sixties
- The site of the first major militant protest on behalf of gay liberation in 1969 was
- The skepticism about authority that emerged in the United States during the 1960s
- Both major-party presidential candidates in 1968 agreed that the United States should
- The "spoiler" third-party candidate for president in 1968 was
- The 1968 Democratic party convention witnessed
- During the Vietnam War, President Lyndon Johnson ordered the CIA, in clear violation of its charter, to
- The most serious blow to Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam policy
- The 1967 Six-Day War intensified the Arab-Israeli conflict by bringing into constant, direct conflict
- Aerial bombardment in Vietnam
- Some advocates of Black Power insisted that their slogan stood for all of the following except
- By 1972, integrated classrooms were most common in the?
- "Operation Rolling Thunder" was the code name for?
- The Latin American nation where Lyndon Johnson send 25,000 American troops to counteract alleged Communist influence was
- Some advocates of Black Power made the slogan the basis for
- By the late 1960s, Black Power advocates in the North focused their attention primarily on
- Black leaders in the 1960s included, ___________ an advocate of peaceable resistance; ___________, who favored black separatism; and __________, an advocate of "Black Power."
- The Watts riot in 1965 symbolized
- As a result of the Voting Rights Act of 1965,
- The common use of poll taxes to inhibit black voters in the South was outlawed by the
- As a result of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965,
- The landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 accomplished all of the following except
- In the final analysis, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs
- All of the following programs were created by Lyndon Johnson's administration except
- Lyndon Johnson channeled educational aid
- Voters supported Lyndon Johnson in the 1964 presidential election because of their