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What year was the desegregation of interstate travel?
1960
What Civil rights leader thought that segregation should end?
W.E.B. Du Bois
During the Great Migration, African Americans moved in significant numbers to the North in order to?
find better jobs and to escape segregation
What terrorist group hoped to deny African-Americans equal rights as citizens?
Ku Klux Klan
In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that schools could not do what?
segregate black children and white children.
What year did The supreme court order ole miss to integrate?
1962
Who gave the " I have a dream" speech in 1963?
Martin Luther King
The Sit-ins protested segregation in what facilities?
restaurants
What was the name of the 14 year old boy from Chicago who was murdered for talking to a white woman?
Emmett Till
In 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for...?
refusing to give her seat up and move to the back of the bus.
What year was the march on Washington?
1963
What Civil rights leader stated violence is pointless and to achieve equality blacks should not use violence?
Martin Luther King
The Great Depression was hardest on blacks because?
They were the first to lose their jobs
What United States president signed the Civil Rights act of 1964?
Lyndon Johnson
On June 11, 1963, President Kennedy announced a bill that enforced what?
no one to discriminate against someone because of his or her race?
What year was the civil rights act passed?
1964
What Civil rights leader wanted African Americans to establish separate communities?
Malcolm X
What law was signed by President Lyndon Johnson prohibiting discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion or national origin?
Civil Rights act of 1964
Who was one of the most important American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.
W.E.B. Du Bois
Martin Luther King recited his speech where?
The Lincoln Memorial
What year was the Lyndon Johnson's "we shall overcome" speech performed in?
1965
What civil rights leader wanted blacks to work hard and earn their equality from whites?
Booker T. Washington
Why was Rosa Parks arrested?
She was instructed to move to the back of the bus and refused?
Who organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
A. Philip Randolph
What happened to the that protesters marched during the early 1960s.
They got arrested.