American Civil Rights Movement

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What is a poll tax?

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Charging s/one to vote

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Who was the first person to land on the moon?

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Neil Armstrong

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What democrat entered the 1968 presidential race, but was shot and killed?

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Robert Kennedy

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Who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus?

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Rosa Parks

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Father of the Civil Rights Movement, "I have a dream" speech at the March on Washington

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

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New laws that required all public facilities to be integrated and prohibited discrimination of jobs based on race, color, or gender.

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Civil Rights Act

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ruled that segregation was illegal and overturned the court case Plessy v Furgeson's "seperate but equal" from 1896

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Brown v Board of Education

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Which lawyer worked for the Brown family on the Brown v. Board of Education case?

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Thurgood Marshall

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Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal to segregate public schools.

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to segregate public schools.

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Outlawed racial discrimination, got rid of "Jim Crow" laws, racial segregation made illegal

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Civil Rights Act of 1964