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Culture and Society from 1950 - 1975

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    SS5H5 Civil Rights
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  • Supreme court decision that outlawed segregation in public schools
    Plessy v. Ferguson
    Brown v. Board of Education
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  • Who was the attorney in the Brown v. Board of Education case?
    Robert F. Kennedy
    Thurgood Marshall
    Dwight Eisenhower
    Lyndon Johnson
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  • Who was the Civil Rights leader that believed in non-violence?
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Thurgood Marshall
    Robert Kennedy
    Dwight Eisenhower
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  • Who was the African American woman who sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
    Dorothea Lange
    Rosa Parks
    Coretta Scott King
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  • What was the name of the famous speech MLK gave at the March on Washington
    "Free at Last"
    "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory"
    "i've Been to the Mountaintop"
    "I Have a Dream"
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  • Federal law that banned segregation in public places like restaurants, hotels, theaters.
    Civil Rights Act of 1964
    Voting Rights Act 1965
    Equal Rights Act 1965
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  • Who was the vice president that was sworn in as president when Kennedy was assassinated?
    Robert F. Kennedy
    Lyndon Johnson
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    Dwight Eisenhower
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  • Who was Cesar Cavez
    farm worker that grew grapes in California during the 1950s
    Fought for better working conditions for migrant workers
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  • What were poll taxes?
    Reading and writing test to be able to vote
    tax levied on blacks that stayed out past curfew
    taxes charged to African Americans for violating civil right
    A fee that was charged to blacks in order to vote in 50s
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  • What is the culture of average people called?
    pop culture
    culture and society
    peer culture
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  • Senator that was accepting the democratic nomination and was assassinated in 1963
    John F. Kennedy
    Robert F. Kennedy
    Thurgood Marshall
    Dwight Eisenhower
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  • What were the Jim Crow Laws?
    Laws that discriminated against blacks in the south
    Laws that MLK and others worked to enact
    Laws that African Americans fought for in the south
    Laws that protected African Americans' rights
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  • Did away with poll taxes and literacy tests
    Voting Rights Act 1965
    Civil Rights Act 1964
    March on
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  • President that signed the Civil Right act and Voting rights act into law
    Robert Kennedy
    Lyndon Johnson
    John F. Kennedy
    Thurgood Marshall
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  • What were the Jim Crow Laws?
    Laws that were struck down during Reconstruction
    Laws that discriminated against migrant workers
    Laws that forced blacks to stay separated from whites
    Laws that allowed employers to pay blacks less money
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  • What was the March on Washington
    a march for space exploration
    a march for equality
    a march through the state of Washington
    a march against high taxes
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