Civil Rights Movement 1960s

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Who was the first black child to desegregate an all-white elementary school in Louisiana?

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Ruby Bridges

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An organization formed in 1960 to coordinate sit-ins and other protests and to give young blacks a larger role in the civil rights movement.

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 

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The main goal of the freedom riders (Congress of Racial Equality) was to-

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pressure the federal government to enforce the law banning segregation on interstate buses

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Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1963 speech expressed his desire to--

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replace racial segregation with an integrated society

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Literacy tests & poll taxes were used in the South to keep African Americans from doing what?

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voting

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What was the purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

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It made literacy tests to vote illegal

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Which statement accurately describes the trend of African American voter registration in the map?

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Voter registration increased in the South

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Which Civil Rights leader also became the first African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court in 1968?

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Thurgood Marshall