Civil Rights Movement vocabulary

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What was Brown vs. Board Of Education?

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Supreme Court ruling that "separate but equal" was unconstitutional.

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In what year did the Title IX become effective protecting people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance.?

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1972

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Who was an active leader in the Civil Rights movement and he was a vocal advocate for black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the black community?

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Malcolm X

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What obstacles blocked the integration of schools to prevent the Little Rock Nine from attending the all white High School in Little Rock, Arkansas?

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The state National's Guard.

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What Amendment outlawed the poll tax as a voting requirement in federal elections

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24th

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Journalist, activist, and co-founder of the National Organization for Women, one of the early leaders of the women's rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

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Betty Friedan

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What was the focus of Cesar Chavez's during the civil Rights Movement?

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co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, creating the United Farm Workers labor Union

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What president signed The Voting Rights Act of 1965, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote?

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Lyndon B Johnson

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Creating a diverse work place with equal opportunities is a form of Affirmative Action

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True

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Best known for arguing the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education, he was a civil rights lawyer who dismantled segregation. Becoming the nation's first Black United States Supreme Court Justice.

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Thurgood Marshall