AP®HistoryCollege BoardUS HistoryExam QuestionsPeriod 8: 1945-1980The African American Civil Rights Movement (1960s)

The African American Civil Rights Movement (1960s) (College Board AP® US History): Exam Questions

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11 mark
Map of Mississippi from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, highlighting project sites, offices, and community centres, with the slogan "One Man, One Vote".
Mississippi Project Map, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), “Report on the Mississippi Project,” 1964

The map most directly depicts the

  • Counties where Black Americans had the highest voter turnout

  • Regions where the federal government provided legal support for activists

  •  Areas most targeted for voter registration efforts due to suppression

  • Locations where SNCC organized boycotts of segregated businesses

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21 mark
Map of Mississippi from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, highlighting project sites, offices, and community centres, with the slogan "One Man, One Vote".
Mississippi Project Map, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), “Report on the Mississippi Project,” 1964

The educational initiatives included in the Mississippi Project were primarily intended to

  • Provide Black students with college scholarships for attending historically Black colleges

  • Teach literacy, political education, and civic engagement through Freedom Schools

  • Train Black American teachers to work in segregated Southern school districts

  • Encourage federal funding for segregated Black schools in the South

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31 mark
Map of Mississippi from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, highlighting project sites, offices, and community centres, with the slogan "One Man, One Vote".
Mississippi Project Map, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), “Report on the Mississippi Project,” 1964

The change in grassroots activism strategies following Freedom Summer best explains which of the following developments?

  • Passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which eliminated discriminatory voting laws

  • Rise of militant Black nationalist movements that rejected nonviolence

  • The federal government’s decision to withdraw troops from Mississippi

  • Collapse of civil rights organizations due to public disinterest

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