Civil Rights Movement

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What protest would Martin Luther King have opposed? Options: Sit-In, Bus Boycott, March on Washington, Race Riots

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Race Riots

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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? Options: It made Jim Crow Laws illegal, It allowed African-Americans to run for political office, It ended segregation in school, It made poll taxes illegal

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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? Options: It gave African-American women the right to vote, It made literacy tests to vote illegal, It made Jim Crow Laws illegal, It allowed all African-Americans to vote

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It made literacy tests to vote illegal

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The March on Washington is most famous for...

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MLK gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech

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How did the assassination of MLK affect the Civil Rights Movement?

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The movement slowed without MLK's leadership.

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African American Lawyer who won the Brown v. Board of Education court case and later became the first black Supreme Court Justice.

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Thurgood Marshall

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There was a growth in political engagement by minorities with the passage of legislation to end-
Literacy tests, voter intimidation, and gerrymandering
Poll taxes, sit-ins, and freedom rides
Labor unions, marches, and protests
Literacy tests, integration, and desegregation

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Literacy tests, voter intimidation, and gerrymandering

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Court case declared that separate black and white public schools to be unconstitutional.

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Brown v. Board of Education

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Companies discriminated African Americans so the federal government answered by passing the-

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Civil Rights Act of 1964