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This event, sparked by Rosa Parks’ arrest, led to a year-long protest against segregated public transportation in Alabama.

What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

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The Sit-ins protested segregation in what facilities
What is dinners/ restaurants
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What occured between 1877 and the 196o's

What is Jim Crow Era

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This minister and civil rights leader was known for his philosophy of nonviolent resistance and gave the famous "I Have a Dream" speech. When was he born 


  • Who is Martin Luther King Jr.? January 15, 1929
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Name MLK's positions

Baptist minister, 1st president of SCLS

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In 1963, this large-scale protest in Washington, D.C., was where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.


March on Washington

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What law was signed by President Lyndon Johnson prohibiting discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion or national origin?
What is Civil Rights act of 1964
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In 1896, the court case of Plessy v. Ferguson stated that?
What is stated that separate but equal was constitutional
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The group of students who were chosen to integrate into Little Rock High School in ARkansas and when did this happen 

Who are the Little Rock nine, 1957

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What does desegregation mean?
What is the races are not kept separated from each other
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In 1965, peaceful protesters were violently attacked by law enforcement on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. This event became known as ___.


What is Bloody Sunday

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During the Great Migration, African Americans moved in significant numbers to the North in order to?
What is escape segregation & find better jobs
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In 1954, the Brown v. Board of Education case determined that?
What is the segregation of American public schools was illegal
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This leader of the Nation of Islam later advocated for racial unity and was assassinated in 1965.


Who is Malcolm X

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Sometimes it is necessary to disobey unjust laws and to work to have them changed. What statement most accurately reflects this idea?
What is civil disobedience
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The court case that said separate but equal in not actually equal

What is Plessy v Feurguson

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The Great Depression was hardest on blacks because?
What is blacks were the first to lose their jobs, and did not have financial savings to help them through the Great Depression
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The time of rebuilding after the civil war

What is reconstruction

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  1. Who was the 14 year old black boy murdered in Mississippi in 1955 and what did his death spark?

Emmit Til, Civil rights movement because of open casket

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What document states “All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights
What is Declaration of Independence
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This 1964 voter registration drive in Mississippi aimed to increase Black voter participation but was met with violence and resistance.


What is Freedom Summer

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What was the boycott that boycotted riding buses and how long did it last

Montgomerey bus boycott lasting 381

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Name 5 things that happened during reconstruction

What is the Linclon Assasination, founding of Klu Lux Clan, African Americans holding public office, black coats

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What United States president signed the Civil Rights act of 1964?

What is Lyndon Johnson

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What religious group did Malcolm X belong to?
What is the Nation of Islam
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