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What two specific activities are protected from discrimination? |
Voting and employment |
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How did T. Eugene Connor react to civil rights marchers in Birmingham, Alabama? |
He ordered the use of police dogs and fire hoses against the marchers |
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While in prison, Malcolm X became a convert to |
the Nation of Islam. |
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What was the significance of Hernandez v. Texas? |
It extended Fourteenth Amendment protections to Mexican Americans |
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In what way did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 affect employment in the United States? |
It outlawed job discrimination and created the EEOC to investigate charges of job |
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The first of the confrontations on the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the march on Selma became known as |
Bloody Sunday. |
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The members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) believed |
that direct, nonviolent methods could gain civil rights for African Americans. |
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In return for the desegregation of interstate transportation, |
the Kennedy administration agreed not to stop the arrest of Mississippi activists. |
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Which civil rights organization won a number of important court cases against segregation in the 1950s? |
NAACP |
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To which city did President Eisenhower send federal troops to protect African American students? |
Montgomery, Alabama |
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At what point did the Black Panthers believe that African Americans would become "free"? |
When they gained full control of their community institutions |
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Who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964? |
President Johnson |
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What were Jim Crow laws? |
They were laws that enforced the strict separation of the races |
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Which of these African Americans is famous for breaking into major league baseball? |
Jackie Robinson |
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When three civil rights workers disappeared during Freedom Summer, the SNCC claimed that they had been |
murdered. |
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What civil rights measure was passed by Congress shortly after King’s assassination? |
The Fair Housing Act |
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What happened in hundreds of cities immediately after the assassination of Martin Luther King? |
Riots broke out |
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Why were many Americans surprised when President Johnson supported civil rights? |
He was a Southerner with an undistinguished record on racial matters |
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The conflict at Little Rock’s Central high School was a reaction to |
Brown v. Board of Education. |
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Following the issuance of the Kerner Commission’s findings, a number of conservative commentators |
argued against expanding federal spending for minorities. |
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How did the Black Panthers exemplify the idea of "black power"? |
The Black Panthers developed programs for African Americans to help themselves and their communities |
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Why did Martin Luther King target Birmingham, Alabama for a civil rights campaign? |
Because it was considered the most segregated city in the South |
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Which of the following events in the Civil Rights movement preceded the Civil Rights Act of 1964? |
The Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Alabama. Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at The March on Washington. |
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At what school was there major rioting over James Meredith’s enrollment? |
The University of Mississippi |
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How long did the Montgomery bus boycott last? |
More than a year |
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In response to riots over desegregation the University of Mississippi, President Kennedy declared that |
Americans were free to disagree with the law but not to disobey it. |
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Not long after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, African Americans in several cities |
assumed public office. |
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In a ruling known as Brown II, the Supreme Court |
ordered the immediate implementation of Brown v. Board of Education. |
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