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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?

Dwight Eisenhower

Robert F. Kennedy

Lyndon Johnson

Thurgood Marshall

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

Robert Kennedy

Thurgood Marshall

Dwight Eisenhower

Martin Luther King Jr

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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

"i've Been to the Mountaintop"

"Free at Last"

"Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory"

"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?

Lyndon Johnson

Martin Luther King Jr.

Robert F. Kennedy

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?

taxes charged to African Americans for violating civil right

Reading and writing test to be able to vote

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

tax levied on blacks that stayed out past curfew

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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

Robert F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

Dwight Eisenhower

Thurgood Marshall

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What were the Jim Crow Laws?

Laws that protected African Americans' rights

Laws that MLK and others worked to enact

Laws that discriminated against blacks in the south

Laws that African Americans fought for in the south

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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

Thurgood Marshall

Lyndon Johnson

John F. Kennedy

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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 through the state of Washington

a march for space exploration

a march against high taxes

a march for equality

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