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SS5H5 Civil Rights

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Supreme court decision that outlawed segregation in public schools

Brown v. Board of Education

Plessy v. Ferguson

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Who was the attorney in the Brown v. Board of Education case?

Robert F. Kennedy

Dwight Eisenhower

Lyndon Johnson

Thurgood Marshall

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Who was the Civil Rights leader that believed in non-violence?

Dwight Eisenhower

Thurgood Marshall

Martin Luther King Jr

Robert Kennedy

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Who was the African American woman who sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Rosa Parks

Coretta Scott King

Dorothea Lange

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What was the name of the famous speech MLK gave at the March on Washington

"Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory"

"i've Been to the Mountaintop"

"I Have a Dream"

"Free at Last"

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Federal law that banned segregation in public places like restaurants, hotels, theaters.

Equal Rights Act 1965

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Voting Rights Act 1965

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Who was the vice president that was sworn in as president when Kennedy was assassinated?

Dwight Eisenhower

Robert F. Kennedy

Lyndon Johnson

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Who was Cesar Cavez

Fought for better working conditions for migrant workers

farm worker that grew grapes in California during the 1950s

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What were poll taxes?

taxes charged to African Americans for violating civil right

A fee that was charged to blacks in order to vote in 50s

tax levied on blacks that stayed out past curfew

Reading and writing test to be able to vote

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What is the culture of average people called?

culture and society

peer culture

pop culture

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Senator that was accepting the democratic nomination and was assassinated in 1963

Thurgood Marshall

Robert F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

Dwight Eisenhower

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What were the Jim Crow Laws?

Laws that protected African Americans' rights

Laws that African Americans fought for in the south

Laws that MLK and others worked to enact

Laws that discriminated against blacks in the south

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Did away with poll taxes and literacy tests

March on

Voting Rights Act 1965

Civil Rights Act 1964

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President that signed the Civil Right act and Voting rights act into law

Robert Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

Thurgood Marshall

Lyndon Johnson

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What were the Jim Crow Laws?

Laws that were struck down during Reconstruction

Laws that allowed employers to pay blacks less money

Laws that forced blacks to stay separated from whites

Laws that discriminated against migrant workers

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What was the March on Washington

a march for space exploration

a march against high taxes

a march for equality

a march through the state of Washington

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