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social studies quiz
Civil Rights Movement (1950's - 1960's)
Question | Answer |
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Black panthers | promoted violence to achieve change |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | civil rights activist, civil disobedience |
Civil disobedience | nonviolent protests |
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas | separate can never be equal |
Little rock 9 | tried to integrate school |
Rosa Parks | Montgomery Bus Boycott - protested segregation laws |
Civil Rights Act of 1964 | outlawed discrimination and segregation (Jim Crow Laws - segregation and racial discrimination in the south) |
Voting Rights Act of 1965 | removed barriers to black enfranchisement in the south, banning poll taxes literacy tests and other that prevented from blacks from voting |