Quiz practice
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Lyndon Johnson | President who signed most of the important civil rights legislation into law.
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| Malcolm X | assassinated in 1965 when members of the Nation of Islam turned against him
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| Jack Ruby | Dallas strip-club owner who shot Lee Harvey Oswald
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| James Earl Ray | convicted of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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| George Wallace | Governor of Alabama had the slogan...Segregation forever!
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| Robert F. Kennedy | Former attorney general, was assassinated while seeking the Democratic nomination for president in 1968.
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| Birmingham | In 1963, peaceful demonstrations here were met with fire hoses and attack dogs.
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| Washington D.C. | Where King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963.
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| Dallas, TX | JFK was assassinated in this city on November 22, 1963.
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| Mississippi | A voter registration drive in 1964 in this state was known as "Freedom Summer."
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| Selma, AL | In 1965, marchers were beaten after they crossed a bridge in this city on their way to the state capital.
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| Memphis, TN | place where MLK, Jr. was assassinated in 1968.
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| Watts | A district of Los Angeles where a six-day riot in 1965 left 36 dead and 4000 arrested.
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| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | banned literacy tests and other laws that kept blacks from voting, and also provided for federal officials to register voters.
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| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | banned segregation in public places.
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| Great Society | LBJ's program to end poverty and racial injustice
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| JFK | LBJ called for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a way to honor the memory of:
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| Freedom Riders | One accomplishment of this group was bringing about a federal ban on segregation in all interstate travel facilities.
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| SNCC | organized "Freedom Summer" to increase voter registration for Southern blacks.
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| Nation of Islam | urged blacks to separate from whites.
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