What was one major element of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
It outlawed literacy tests as a requirement for voting.
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What was true of the Jim Crow Era?
It began after Reconstruction, state and local laws enforced racial segregation in the South, leaders of the Civil Rights Movement worked hard to end it.
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The Little Rock Nine involved what?
Nine black students intergrating into an all white school in Arkansas. The National Guard was involved in a month long protest as white mobs attacked pupils.
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T/F:The Selma to Montgomery Freedom March...Television footage of the events of the first attempt outraged people across the country.
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The Birmingham bombing involved...
the deaths of four black girls attending Sunday school
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The term "Bloody Sunday" was used to describe the events of...
The Selma to Montgomery Freedom March
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What do Dr. King, Malcom X, and Robert F. Kennedy all have in common?
They were all assassinated between 1965 and 1968.
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What did the Freedom Riders encounter?
They were civil rights left Washington DC for New Orleans in 1961, rode segregated buses in the south, were fire bombed and beaten
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Rosa Parks was arrested for violating what code in Montgomery, Alabama?
Separate but equal accommodations on a city bus
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Who said, "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
Martin Luther King Jr
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T/F:The Selma to Montgomery Freedom March...The first attempt was stopped after crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
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T/F:The Selma to Montgomery Freedom March had John Lewis as a key organizer
