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NAEP Civics Grade 12

Category - Civics

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"We need an intensified voter registration drive, a determined effort to integrate the public schools, lunch counters, public parks, theaters, etc." -- Martin Luther King, Jr., 1961

"These legislative and judicial victories did very little to improve the lot of millions of Negroes in the teeming ghettos of the North.... The issues which we confront are the hard core economic issues." -- Martin Luther King, Jr., 1966

In what fundamental way do the two quotes above show different understandings of the rights of citizens?

  1. In the first quote, rights are assumed to belong to individuals; in the second quote rights are assigned to groups.
  2. The first quote focuses on political and legal rights; the second quote focuses on economic rights and opportunities.
  3. The first quote focuses on the rights of people in rural areas; the second quote focuses on the rights of people in cities.
  4. The first quote defines rights as belonging to all humans; the second quote defines rights as belonging only to citizens.
Explanation

Answer: B - The first quote focuses on political and legal rights; the second quote focuses on economic rights and opportunities.

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