Civil Rights & Key Issues

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Effects; Separate educational facilities and resources for white and African-American students, Social isolation of races; what was the cause?

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Segregation

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Situations such as this were directly improved by? Options: the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Plessy v. Ferguson, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Korematsu v. United States

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the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of it's creed:" - The words are from a speech by?

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus started the Montgomery bus boycott?

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Rosa Parks

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"States are prohibited from imposing any voting qualifications or prerequisite to voting or to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color" - Which of the following is being described in the document? Armed Forces Desegregation Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, G.I. Bill

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the Voting Rights Act of 1965

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"Extends voting rights and outlaws racial discrimination in schools and the workplace and by facilities that serve the general public" - Which of the following is being described in the document?

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the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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The Civil Rights Movement opposed Plessy v. Ferguson and its premise of?

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separate but equal

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Which worked mainly to improve conditions for women? Options: United Nations (UN), North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), National Organization for Women (NOW)

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National Organization for Women (NOW)

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The types of protests against segregation facilitated by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was called?

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passive resistance

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