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Who successfully integrated many restraunts by using sit-ins?
CORE
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Where was the successfull bus boycott?
Montgomery, AL
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WHo was the student who was barred from the neighborhood school?
Linda Brown
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What case established the seperate-but-equal doctrine?
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
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What encouraged white southerners to defy court rulings?
The Southern Manifesto
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Who was NAACP's chief counsel?
Thurgood Marshall
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Who was the minister whose vision and nonviolent methods helped the Civil Rights movement transform merican society?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Whose philosphy and techniques did MLK draw on?
Mohandas Gandhi
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How did MLK think we should end segregation?
Through nonviolent passive resistance
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When first established, what did the Southern Christian Leadership Conference set out to do?
End segregation and encourage African Americans to register to vote.
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Where was the first time shince the Civil War that a state's armed forces were used to oppose the authority of the federal gov't?
Little Rock, AR
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In Little Rock, how did the gov't try to prevent African American students from entering a white high school?
By deploying the National Guard
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What was intended to protect African American voting rights?
The Civil Rights Act of 1957
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Where was the sit-in at Woolworth's that sparked a new mass movement for Civil Rights?
Greensboro, North Carolina
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What organization was founded by student civil rights activists?
SNCC
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Where did the SNCC's Voter Education Project focus on?
Rural areas of the Deep South
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Who was the SNCC's first chairperson?
Marion Berry
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Who helped organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party?
Fannie Lou Hamer
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Who were organized to draw attention to the South's refusal to integrate bus terminals?
The Freedom Riders
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Why did Kennedy act slowly on civil rights at first?
He needed support from many Southern senators to get other programs passed.
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How did Robert Kennedy try to help African Americans register to vote?
By having the Justice Department file lawsuits throughout the South.
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Where was the violence against demonstrators, viewed by millions on television, prompted kennedy to prepare new civil rights bill?
Birmingham, AL
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Who was the first African American student to attend the University of Mississippi?
James Meredith
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Where did MLK give his "I have a dream" speech?
At the march on Washington
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Where was the "march for freedom" in which state troopers and deputized citizens brutally attacked marchers in full view of television?
Selma, AL
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Why did MLK select Selma for a protest march?
Because African Americans were the majority, but only a fraction were registered to vote
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What did little to guarentee the right to vote?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Until 1965, what did the civil rights movement focus on rather than economic and social problems?
Segregation and voting rights
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Who did the Kerner Commission blame the majority of the inner-city problems on?
The white society and white racism
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Who was a symbol of the black power movement?
Malcolm X
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Who was the leader of the SNCC who believed in black power?
Stokely Carmichael
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When did Malcolm X conclude that an integrated society was possible?
After his pilgrimage to Makkah
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Who was one of the organizers of the black panthers who wrote Soul on Ice, articulating manyu of the organization's objectives?
Eldrige Cleaver
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Where was MLK assassinated?
Memphis, TN
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