Civil Rights Movement Review

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_____________ was a national effort made by many Americans to obtain equal rights for African Americans in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s.

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The Civil Rights Movement

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______________ is the practice of separating people into different areas, usually because of their race, class, or ethnic group.

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Segregation

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In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court ruled that...

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racial segregation was legal

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What was the Supreme Court case that, in 1954, overturned the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision and forced schools to desegregate?

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Brown vs. Board of Education

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Which Civil Rights leader was from Atlanta, Georgia, believed in a non-violent approach to civil rights, and wrote the book "Letters from a Birmingham Jail"?

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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In which way did members of the Baton Rouge community support the bus boycott?

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They provided a free ride system for boycotters without cars.

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Which was a model for the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

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Baton Rouge Bus Boycott

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An American activist known for being the first black child to desegregate the all-white Elementary School in Louisiana.

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Ruby Bridges

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On Ruby’s first day of school, what did the white parents do?

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They pulled their children out of school.

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The bar graph below shows the number of registered African American voters in several states. Which event caused the changes in African American voter registration shown in the graph?

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Congress passed the Voting Rights of 1965