American civil rights movement

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What legal action helped to end segregation in public schools?

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Brown v. Board of Education

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Forcing people to use separate facilities according to race

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segregation

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What legal action made it acceptable to allow segregation in public facilities?

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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Which of these is best described in the list above? Fourteenth Amendment, Civil Rights Act, March on Washington, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Bus segregation enforced

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed on April 4th, 1968. His death hit the American people very hard and caused a series of riots in over 100 cities throughout the United States. King was a leader of which of the following movements? civil rights, emancipation, women's suffrage, independence

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civil rights

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The policy of "separate but equal" was used to

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justify the practice of legal racial segregation.

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What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlaw?

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denying the right to vote based on race or color

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What was the result of the Brown v. Board of Education case?

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Segregation in public schools became illegal

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What was the purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

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It made Jim Crow Laws illegal

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What was the purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

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It made literacy tests to vote illegal