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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
100
Jim Crow laws were put into place to?
What is keep African Americans from getting their full equality
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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.


  • Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
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What does segregation mean?
What is each race is kept separate from each other
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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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She was the first African American child to integrate an all-white elementary school in the South in 1960.


who is Ruby Bridges

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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
300
In 1954, the Brown v. Board of Education case determined that?
What is the segregation of American public schools was illegal
300

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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In 1960, four African American college students in Greensboro, North Carolina, launched this form of nonviolent protest at a Woolworth’s lunch counter.


What is a sit-in

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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 main goal of the civil rights movement was to?
What is end segregation based on race
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  1. She was a co-founder of the NAACP and a journalist who fought against lynching in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.


Ida B. Wells

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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
500

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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The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920’s was a period when African Americans
What is blacks made important contributions in music, literature, & art
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Literacy tests, Poll Taxes & the Grandfather Clause was put into place to?
What is prevent African Americans from voting
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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