Civil Rights

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

• allow children to work.
• to pay black people less than white people.
• to return a slave.
• to segregate schools.

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Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.

• Sweatt v. Painter
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Mendez v. Kirby ISD

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Nonviolent protest, where protesters occupied space in order to protest segregation.

• Sit-In
• Freedom Rides
• Selma March
• Filibuster

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Which US president signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

• Lyndon B. Johnson
• John F. Kennedy

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Person who was killed on April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony outside his hotel room at Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee after trying to help black sanitation workers receive better working conditions    

• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Robert Kennedy

Black nationalist leader who for awhile was a spokesman for the Nation of Islam; talked about black freedom “by any means necessary;” was assassinated on February 21, 1965, in NYC by Nation of Islam members  

• Malcolm X
• Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

• Charlayne Hunter
• Harriet Tubman
• Rosa Parks
• Rebecca L. Felton

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_______________ wrote "I Have a Dream" and delivered it to thousands in Washington, DC. 

• Harry Belafonte
• Barack Obama
• Martin Luther King, Jr. 
• Jesse Jackson

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In 1964, Martin received the _____________ for peace. 

• Nobel Prize
• Oscar Award

Which president integrated the military and federal government?

• Truman
• Eisenhower
• Roosevelt
• Kennedy