Civil Rights Movement

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Supreme Court case that upheld constitutionality of racial segregation laws

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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True or False: Segregation was strictly confined to Southern States such as Georgia and Alabama and did not occur in Northern States such as NY.

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False

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Charismatic speaker for the Nation of Islam who advocated for equality "by any means necessary"

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Malcolm X

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May 1961 students ride from Washington DC to New Orleans to test Supreme Court decision banning segregation on interstate transport.

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Freedom Rides

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What was the immediate objective of the "Freedom Summer"?

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Registering more African Americans to vote in Mississippi

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Which event made MLK a nationally recognized leader? Options: Montgomery Bus Boycott, Freedom Summer, Greensboro Sit ins, Selma

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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The objective of the 1963/4 March on Washington was to

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pressure Congress into passing Civil Rights Bill of 1963

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This city was infamous for the amounts of bombs used to terrorize African Americans.

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Birmingham

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Leader of the SCLC

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Martin Luther King Jr

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Civil Rights activists were frequently accused of being

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communists