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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
    Brown v. Board of Education
    Plessy v. Ferguson
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  • Who was the attorney in the Brown v. Board of Education case?
    Lyndon Johnson
    Dwight Eisenhower
    Robert F. Kennedy
    Thurgood Marshall
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  • Who was the Civil Rights leader that believed in non-violence?
    Robert Kennedy
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Thurgood Marshall
    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
    "i've Been to the Mountaintop"
    "I Have a Dream"
    "Free at Last"
    "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory"
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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?
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    Robert F. Kennedy
    Dwight Eisenhower
    Lyndon Johnson
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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?
    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?
    culture and society
    pop culture
    peer culture
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  • Senator that was accepting the democratic nomination and was assassinated in 1963
    Thurgood Marshall
    Dwight Eisenhower
    Robert F. Kennedy
    John F. Kennedy
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  • What were the Jim Crow Laws?
    Laws that discriminated against blacks in the south
    Laws that protected African Americans' rights
    Laws that MLK and others worked to enact
    Laws that African Americans fought for in the south
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  • Did away with poll taxes and literacy tests
    Civil Rights Act 1964
    March on
    Voting Rights Act 1965
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  • President that signed the Civil Right act and Voting rights act into law
    Lyndon Johnson
    John F. Kennedy
    Robert Kennedy
    Thurgood Marshall
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  • What were the Jim Crow Laws?
    Laws that forced blacks to stay separated from whites
    Laws that discriminated against migrant workers
    Laws that allowed employers to pay blacks less money
    Laws that were struck down during Reconstruction
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  • What was the March on Washington
    a march against high taxes
    a march through the state of Washington
    a march for equality
    a march for space exploration
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