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What is segregation?
The separation of people based on race or ethnicity
What year was JFK elected?
1960
"Freedom Summer" was a campaign in Mississippi by the SNCC that got over 1,000 volunteers to do what?
Help African Americans register to vote
The Civil Rights Bill ended Segregation in what places?
Public Places
What was the name of MLK's most famous Speech?
"I Have a Dream"
What was the name of the 14 year old boy who was killed for whistling at a white woman?
Emmett Till
What made the election of 1960 different from the others? (During the debates)
The debates were nationally televised
The Selma Campaign was a march from where to where?
Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama
in 1964 the 24th Amendment was passed which ended what tax?
The Poll Tax
MLK was an advocate for what kind of protests?
Non-violent Protests
Who was the space race against? (what country)
Soviet Union
Who did JFK run against for pesident?
Richard Nixon
Who was the group of young African American Men who more militant then civil rights groups before and started the phrase "Black Power"?
The Black Panthers
The Voting Act of 1965 banned these types of test as a voting standared?
Literacy Tests
At the end of his career, where did his focus shift to?
Economic Inequality
What is Deficit Spending?
When the Government borrows money to fund programs and create jobs
Where was JFK assassinated?
Dallas, Texas
What was the name of the day where somewhere between 100-600 black sharecroppers got murdered by a white mob? (The bell-ringer)
Elaine Massacre or Elaine Race Riots
Finish the quote- The Equal Pay Act of 1963 said the "Equal wages for _____ ______".
Equal Work
Where was Martin Luther King Killed?
Memphis, Tennessee
What was the name of the Mission that sent a man to the moon?
Apollo 11
What was the name of JFK's Killer?
Lee Harvey Oswald
What was the name of the bridge that the Selma Campaign crossed when State troopers met them and beat them?
Edmund Pettus Bridge
This supreme Court case over ruled Plessy V. Ferguson and ended segregation in schools.
Brown V. Board of Education
What was the name of MLK's last campaign he launched to target economic inequalities?
Poor Peoples Campaign