The Century Poisoned Dreams Answers

Question: What happens in Greensboro, North Carolina?

Answer: Joe McNeil and three other college freshmen “Sit Down” for a cup of coffee and a donut to integrate the lunch counters.

Question: Who said, “The first time I was arrested I was free.”?

Answer: John Lewis

Question: What two things have a powerful effect on white northerners?

Answer: Sit-ins and TV

Question: The shadow of what lingers of the U.S.?

Answer: The Cold War

Question: Who ran in the 1960 election?

Answer: John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon

Question: What kind of people were John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon

Answer: ardent Cold warriors

Question: How did the TV help John F Kennedy’s campaign?

Answer: Hid infectious energy came across to the American public

Question: What kind of people supported Nixon over Kennedy?

Answer: People who listened over the radio

Question: Why do all Americans feel involved in the government after the election of John F Kennedy?

Answer: Younger men in their thirties run the government

Question: Who circles the globe April 12, 1961?

Answer: Yuri Gagarin