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When year was MLK born?

What is 1929

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This movement was one of the country's most famous in the 1960s led by MLK

What is the civil rights movement?

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This woman refused to give up her seat on the bus for a white person and was arrested

What is Rosa Parks

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Journeys on interstate buses into the segregated South to test the United States Supreme Court decision., which ruled that segregation was unconstitutional for passengers engaged in interstate travel.

What is Freedom Rides

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A court case that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.

What is Brown v Board of Education

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Where did Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his famous speech "I have a dream ..."?

What is The Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC on August 28th, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. organized the now historic march to Washington to show the importance of solving the nation's racial problems. About 250,000 people gathered and listened to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech when he uttered the immortal words: "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character".

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Prominent in the 1960s around the same time as the Civil Rights Movement, its goal was achieving Mexican-American empowerment. Mostly focused on the Western states of the US.
What is the Chicano Movement
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Civil Rights leader who formed his own Muslim group
What is Malcolm X
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A bombing that killed four African American girls. It marked a turning point in the U.S during the Civil Rights Movement and contributed to support for passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

What is 16th Street Baptist Church bombing

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A bill, passed by LBJ that abolished Jim Crow Laws & was the turning point of the civil rights movement.

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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When and where was MLK assasinated?
What is Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on 4 April 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was trying to help the striking garbage workers. The funeral was held on 9 April 1968 at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
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This gay man was MLK's key organizer. He realized that the rapidly growing Civil Rights movement was a great platform to make the first American-based political demands for fair treatment of gays and lesbians in mental health, public policy, and employment.
What is Bayard Rustin
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This 14 year old whistled at Carolyn Bryant and she fabricated the story by saying she as physically assaulted by him. He was then kidnapped, beaten, tortured, killed and his body dumped into a river.
Who is Emmett Till
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A group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

What is the Little Rock Nine

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A bill; prohibited use of literacy tests & authorized votes in dangerous places; helped create new voting population in the south

What is Voting Rights Act of 1965

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What year was the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday first observed?
What is 1986 1986 was the first year that Martin Luther King Jr. Day was celebrated. This Holiday should highlight remembrance and celebration and should encourage people everywhere to reflect on the principles of nonviolent social change and racial equality as espoused by Martin Luther King, Jr. It should be a day of community and humanitarian service, and interracial cooperation.
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Radical group that advocated "Black Power"; believed violence by whites should be answered by violence from blacks; called for 'better education, better medical care, and better housing"; spoke of racial revolution

The Black Panthers

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Founders of the Black Panthers
Who are Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
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A political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. The campaign lasted from December 5, 1955—the Monday after Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person

What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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A type of protest very common in the 1960s where African-Americans would enter establishments and partake in a certain action and defy the segregating rules by being in white-only areas

What is sit-ins

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What church did King become the pastor of?
What is Ebenezer Baptist Church of Atlanta
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he argued several cases before the Supreme Court, including Smith v. Allwright, Shelley v. Kraemer, and Brown v. Board of Education, which held that racial segregation in public education is a violation of the Equal Protection Clause. He was an American lawyer, serving as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991.
Who is Thurgood Marshall
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The purpose of the march was to advocate for civil and economic rights for African Americans. At the march, Martin Luther King Jr., standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech in which he called for an end to racism.[3]

What is the March on Washington

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Enacted by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures in the late 19th century after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued to be enforced until 1965. They mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America, starting in 1896 with a "separate but equal" status for African Americans in railroad cars

What is Jim Crow laws

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