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Linda Brown
What was the name of the seven year old girl who was not permitted to attend an all-white elementary school in Topeka, Kansas?
100
The separation of people of different races
What is segregation
100
Lee Harvey Oswald
Who shot President John F. Kennedy?
100
Watts section of Los Angeles
Where did large urban race riots in the summer of 1965 take place?
100
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Which government organization helps fund public housing projects?
200
Thurgood Marshall
Who was the chief lawyer for the NAACP?
200
Poverty line
What is the term that describes the minimum income needed so survive?
200
Earl Warren
Who was the Chief Justice of the United States appointed to head a commission to investigate the Kennedy assassination?
200
A domestic peace corps of citizens working in poor neighborhoods
What does the "Volunteers in Service to America" organization (VISTA) do?
200
Mohandas Gandhi
Who used nonviolent protest to help India gain independence from Great Britain?
300
Orval Faubus
Which Arkansas governor opposed integration during the "Confrontation in Little Rock?"
300
Medicaid
What law passed under the Johnson administration helped poor people pay their hospital bills?
300
George Wallace
Which governor vowed to "stand in the schoolhouse door" to block integration at the University of Alabama?
300
Prohibited discrimination against African Americans in employment, voting, and public accommodations
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?
300
Plessy v. Ferguson
Which Supreme Court case in 1896 ruled that "separate but equal" public facilities were legal?
400
Jack Ruby
Who killed Lee Harvey Oswald?
400
boycott
What is the term that means a refusal to use something as a form of protest?
400
Ella Baker
Who was a leader and "guiding spirit" behind the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
400
Leaders emphasized nonviolent protest and showed civil rights workers how to protect themselves from violent attacks, as well as helping workers identify targets for protests
What was the purpose of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
400
"The Great Society"
What was the name for President Johnson's policy aimed at eliminating poverty and extending education to poor children so that they could read and write?
500
Joseph P. Kennedy
What was the name of John F Kennedy's father?
500
In 1964, thousands of civil rights workers spread throughout the South to help African Americans register to vote
What happened during the "Freedom Summer"?
500
Ross Barnett
Which governor attempted to prevent African American student James Meredith from enrolling at the University of Mississippi?
500
A policy for social programs made up of several bills sent to Congress. Aimed at adding federal funds to education, and helping poor people get jobs. Congress failed to pass most of these bills because the proposed programs were expensive
What was Kennedy's "New Frontier"?
500
A female opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) who argued that the amendment would upset traditional roles of society and lead to the breakdown of the family?
Who was Phyllis Schlafly?
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