Chapter 18 Review Quiz

1.  In the first phase of the 1961 March on Washington, James Farmer and twelve other riders were assaulted outside of Anniston, Alabama, when someone in the white mob threw a firebomb into the bus.            

1. True
2. False

2.  When the first phase of the freedom rides ended in violence, Diane Nash of SNCC took up the torch and continued the rides.            

1. True
2. False

3.     When arrested in Mississippi, the freedom riders were sent to the infamous Parchman prison where most spent their sixty-day sentences.  

1. True
2. False

         
4. A compromise between the voter registration wing and the direct action wing of SNCC was brokered by James Lawson.        

1. True
2. False

5.  Although black residents constituted almost half of Mississippi’s population, less than __________ were registered to vote.      

1. 20 percent
2. 5 percent
3. 35 percent
4. 10 percent

6. The McComb project, a voter registration campaign in Amite County, Mississippi, was led by a twenty-six-year-old black high school teacher from New York named __________.            

1. Robert Moses
2. Chuck McDew
3. James Bevel
4. Bob Zellner

7.   The Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), formed by Robert Moses, included __________.          

1. only young militant leaders of SNCC
2. representatives of local organizations outside of larger civil rights groups
3. nationalist leaders inspired by the UNIA
4. the NAACP, SNCC, and CORE

8.   Late in September 1961, a white member of the Mississippi legislature shot and killed __________, a black Amite County resident who had helped register rural black Mississippians to vote.  

1.  Bob Zellner
2. Herbert Lee
3. James Bevel
4. Fannie Lou Hamer

9.   When plantation worker Fannie Lou Hamer tried to register to vote, she lost her job and her home and was __________.    

1.  attacked by a white mob outside of her county courthouse
2. run out of the state of Mississippi
3. severely beaten in jail
4. kidnapped by the Ku Klux Klan

10.   SNCC’s Southwest Georgia Project was organized by Charles Sherrod and Cordell Reagon.          

1. True
2. False