Civil Rights Movement

The Dixiecrat Party was made of Southern Democrats who favored "state's rights".

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• False

Strom Thurmond was a long-serving politician from SC who began his career as a segregationist.

• True
• False

Briggs v. Elliott was a part of the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision.

• True
• False

Many CR leaders such as Septima Clark and Modjeska Simkins had backgrounds in education.

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• False

The Friendship Nine were students from Rock Hill who led a violent protest at a segregated lunch counter.

• True

• False

Activists arrested for sit-ins were encouraged to stay in jail and not seek bail in order to draw attention to injustices.

• True

• False

SC made national news when the admission of Harvey Gantt to Clemson resulted in violent protests and the deployment of National Guard troops.

• True
• False

Martin Luther King Jr. was a member and President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

• True
• False

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 failed to give the Federal Government the ability to enforce discrimination laws.

• True
• False

The Orangeburg Massacre occurred after the Black Panthers set up their headquarters at SC State College in 1968.

• True

• False