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The first sit in was in Greensboro, North Carolina
True
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Movement in the 1960's and 1950's to win equal rights for all African Americans.
What is The Civil Rights Movement
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The minister that led the SCLC and stressed nonviolent protests for African American equality.
Martin Luther King Jr.
100
wrote the Native Son and Black boy
Richard Wright
100
What event happened in the 1950's that enforced Brown v. Board of Education?
Little Rock Nine
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SNCC's main goal in Selma, Alabama was to register voters.
True
200
Any series of trips taken by groups to defy segregation of trains, buses, etc. in the South during the 1960's.
freedom rides
200
A professional boxer stripped of title after refusing to serve in the Army.
Muhammad Ali
200
Wrote A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
200
A group of people with incomes below the poverty level.
Underclass
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The March on Washington was held August 1963 to show support for a voting rights bill.
False; Civil rights bill
300
Who created the New Frontier policy?
John F. Kennedy
300
Split from the Nation of Islam and stressed Pan-African-American pride.
Malcolm X
300
Entertainer; popularized "cool jazz"
Miles Davis
300
In May of 1963 what are two things the Birmingham police used to put down protests?
Fire hoses and attack dogs
400
Brown v. Board of education overturned a famous court case Plessy v. Ferguson.
True
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Form of protest in which African Americans refused to leave until they were served.
What are Sit-ins
400
A Lawyer that studied at Howard, worked for the NAACP and was appointed to the Supreame Court.
Thurgood Marshall
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Who wrote the Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
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In what state was "Freedom Summer" focused on?
Mississippi
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School integration was challenged in 1957 at Missisippi University in Little Rock.
False; Central High School
500
Social and Economic policies of Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1960's
What is the Great society
500
This SNCC member was active in Missippi voter registration and in the MFDP (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party) in 1964.
Fanni Lou Hamer
500
Who is the Entertainer that won an Oscar in 1963
Sidney Poitier
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Define De facto segregation.
Seperation by people of racial groups that results from customs rather than from law.
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