Civil Rights Movement SS8H11

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Thurgood Marshall:

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Argued the Brown v. Board of Education case in front of the Supreme Court

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Which court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson?

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Brown v. Board of Education

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What did many people believe the 1956 Georgia flag was in response to?

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Georgia's resistance to the federal government's integration laws

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The Sibley Commission

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held public hearings to see how Georgians felt about integration

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The Sibley Commission found that:

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2 out of Georgians would rather see schools closed than integrated

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What was the Civil Rights Movement?

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African Americans fought against racial discrimination and segregation.

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Martin Luther King Jr.:

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All of the above

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Led anti-discrimination marches and protests throughout the South

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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A group of college students who held sit-ins at segregated restaurants and promoted voter registration:

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Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

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Which movement lasted from the Fall of 1961 to the Summer of 1962 and whose goal was to end all types of segregation in Albany, GA?

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Albany Movement