When did President Johnson get sworn in as President?
Just hours after Presidnet Kennedy had been shot.
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What speech is Martin Luther King Jr. famous for?
The "I Have A Dream Speech"
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What religion did Malcolm X help spread?
Islam
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What was the movement Black Power?
A black separatist movement that grew out of frustration with the slow pace of the civil rights movement.
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What was the Bay of Pigs?
It was when the CIA was training and financing a group of anit-Castro Cuban refugees who were to invade Cuba.
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What does OEO stand for?
Office of Economic Opportunity
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What were Freedom Riders?
A group of civil rights workers who took bus trips through southern states in 1961 to protest illegal bus segregation.
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What was Malcolm X's real name?
Malcolm Little
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What was the Black Panther Party?
A political organization formed in the 1960s, that called for empowerment of and defense fro African Americans.
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What was the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty?
An agreement signed by the U.S. president John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev that ended aboveground testing of nuclear weapons.
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What was president Johnson's War on Poverty?
It was programs to help poor Americans.
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What new organization in 1957 did MLK Jr. lead?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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How did Malcolm X suggest that they achieved freedom?
He called for freedom to be brought "by any means neccessary."
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What was the Poor People's Campaign?
Martin Luther King's proposed movement to protest the believed misuse of government spending away from antipoverty programs.
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What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
A standoff between the Unioted States and the Soviet Union in which the Soviets agreed to remove missiles from Cuba if the United States promised not to invade the island.
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What programs did President Johnson create that provided free health care to the needy and provided federaql health insurance for people over the age of 65?
Medicaid and Medicare
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What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ban?
It banned racial discrimination in the use of public facilities and in employment practices.
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How did Malcolm X die?
In February 1965 he was gunned down by three Black Muslim assassins.
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What was the National Black Political Convention?
A meeting of civil rights activists to ensure the African Americans would continue to gain political influence.
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What was the most widely recognized symbol of the Cold War?
The Berlin Wall
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What was the Elementary and Secondary Education Act?
A federal law that provided $1.3 billion to aid schools in poor areas.
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What was the most common form of protesting in 1960?
Sit-ins
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Who was Malcolm X criticizing when he said "Any Negro who teaches other Negroes to turn the other cheek is disarming that Negro...[of] his natural right to defend himself"?
He was criticizing Martin Luther King Jr.
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What does the term Busing mean?
Sending children to schools outside of their neighborhoods, usually to promote integration.