1. What caused a division between Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the black power movement?
A: For Martin Luther King, Jr., Black Power was ‘‘essentially an emotional concept’’ that meant ‘‘different things to different people." However, for the black power movement, Black Power meant violence and black separatism. Hence, this controversy over Black Power caused a division between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the black power movement.
2. What led to the passage of the Twenty-sixth Amendment?
A: The Vietnam War led to the passage of the Twenty-sixth Amendment because anger over the military draft fueled discussions of voting age. Many draftees argued that if they were old enough to fight, they were old enough to fight.
3. Why did President Johnson decide not to run for reelection in 1968?
A: President Johnson decided not to run for reelection in 1968 for a couple of reasons. First, Johnson’s popularity suffered immensely due the Vietnam War. Secondly, public opinion no longer favored the president so his polls numbers were dwindling. And lastly, Johnson did not want to “permit the presidency to become involved in the partisan divisions that [were] developing in this political year” (791).
4. How did the Vietnam War affect Americans' attitudes toward international conflicts and the use of United States troops overseas?
A: The Vietnam War made many Americans become more reluctant to intervene in the affairs of other nations and to commit United States troops in conflicts overseas.
5. Why did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat to a white man?
A: Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man because she was tired of giving in to the demands of white people.
6. According to Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, why did people in Montgomery not use the word "integration?"
A: According to Robinson, people in Montgomery did not use the word "integration" because to admit that black Americans were seeking to integrate would have been too much; there would have been much bloodshed and arrests of those who dared to disclose such an idea.
7. How does Martin Luther King, Jr., compare the efforts planned for his organization to those of organizations that opposed African Americans?
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8. Explain the Voting Rights Act of 1965. How did it increase voter registration?
A: The Voting Right Act of 1965 authorized the attorney general to send federal examiners to register qualified voters, bypassing local officials who often refused to register African Americans. The law also suspended discriminatory devices such as literary tests in counties where less than half of all adults had been allowed to vote. The results were dramatic. By the end of the year, almost 250,000 African Americans had registered as new voters, increasing voting registration significantly.
Your answer to the question about Dr. King and the Black Power movement is better. You have defined the Black Power movement's advocacy of violence as a means to achieve racial equality. How did that differ from Dr. King's views?
The Voting Rights Act, most significantly, required states to submit changes in laws affecting voting to the Attorney General's office for review to make sure they did not effectively bar some people from voting (by imposing impossible "tests" or obstacles to voting). Read this:
http://civilrights.findlaw.com/other-constitutional-rights/the-voting-rights-act-of-1965-overview.html
7. In comparing the efforts planned for his organization to those of organizations that opposed African Americans, Martin Luther King Jr. highlighted that while organizations opposing African Americans aimed to achieve their goals through force and violence, his organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), focused on nonviolent protests and civil disobedience. King stressed that their fight was not for revenge or to harm others, but rather for justice, equality, and civil rights. By emphasizing the nonviolent approach, King aimed to differentiate the goals and methods of the civil rights movement from those of the opposition.
Note: The question is incomplete, so this explanation is based on the assumption of the intended comparison between the efforts of different organizations.
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