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Civil Rights History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| when did mlk get shot | april 4, 1968 |
| who shot mlk | james earl ray |
| who was the major of detroit in the 70's | coleman young |
| when did the detroit riot happen | 1967 |
| how was the detroit riot stopped | federal government brought in the national guard |
| what city tried to force school busing programs | boston |
| what gave blacks preference in hiring to right the wrongs of the past | affirmative action |
| what ammendment banned poll taxes | 24 |
| what eliminated literacy tests and made federal gov sign people up to vote | voting rights act of 1965 |
| what was a famous Malcolm X speech | ballots or bullets |
| what phrase did LBJ use in a televised speech | "we shall overcome" |
| where was the march that was stopped by using tear gas and other violence? what was the bridge called? | selma, edmund pettus bridge |
| what was the police of civil rights hiring | EEOC Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
| prohibits discrimination by race, color, or GENDER in hiring | Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| where was the voting registration drive | Mississippi |
| who wanted to cause national attention regarding civil rights | A Philip Randolf |
| what city caused national attention | Washington DC |
| what amendment said states cant deprive rights guaranteed by fed gov | 14 |
| where was Brown vs Board challenged | Little Rock |
| what changes were made in Greensboro | lunch counters |
| who relentlessly beat blacks in birmingham? | Bull Connor |
| where was MLK when he wrote a letter | Birmingham |
| what city was a colossal failure | albany |
| what group was Malcolm X in | nation of islam |
| what group was MLK in | SCLC |
| who brought changes in courtrooms | NAACP |
| who founded NAACP | WEB Dubois |
| what group was composed of young people | SNCC |
| who was a prominent TV news anchor | Walter Cronkite |
| who ordered an end to discrimination to companies who produced military goods | FDR |
| what president gets involved in Little Rock | eisenhower |
| who started the montgomery bus boycott | rosa parks |
| what black northerner got lynched in the south | Emmett till |
| who was brown's lawyer | thurgood marshall |
| what future government position did thurgood marshall hold | justice in the supreme court |
| who was the judge in Brown vs Board | Earl Warren |
| who integrated the military | truman |
| what act brought more people from asia and africa | immigration act of 1965 |
| when was JFK shot | november 22, 1963 |
| who shot JFK | Lee harvey oswald |
| who shot Lee harvey oswald | jack ruby |
| what was the marshall plan for latin america | Alliance for progress |
| what program tried to give the US a good name | Peace Corps |
| people on the radio thought _____ won the kennedy nixon debates | nixon |
| where did the hippies mainly meet | haight-ashbury |
| where did the beatniks mainly meet | greenwich village |
| what act created highways across the country | interstate highway act |
| what speech did nixon give | checkers speech |
| who beat who in 1948 | truman defeat dewey |
| who beat who in 1952 | eisenhower defeat stevenson |
| who beat who in 1956 | eisenhower defeat stevenson |
| who beat who in 1960 | jfk beat nixon |
| who wrote a book on how to raise your kids | doctor spock |
| who were three popular teens in the 1950's | james dean, marlin brando, elvis |
| who refused to have elvis on his show | ed sullivan |
| what fictional family did people have to "keep up with" | Jones's |
| what was the first town the mass-produced homes | levittown |
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