civil rights intro

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Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal to:

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segregate schools.

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Who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus?

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Rosa Parks

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Act that eliminated the so-called literacy tests that had disqualified many voters.

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 bans the use of __________ by states.

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literacy tests

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Where did the first sit-ins for civil rights take place? Options: on busses, in schools, at polling places, at lunch counters

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at lunch counters

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What state laws created separate public facilities for African Americans in the South?

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Jim Crow Laws

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The main goal of the freedom riders was to 

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pressure the federal government to enforce the law banning segregation on interstate buses

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In the 1954 trial of Brown v Board of Education, the US Supreme Court ruled that

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racially segregated public schools are unconstitutional

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Where did President Eisenhower send the 101st Airborne to enforce integration of a public high school? Options: Little Rock, Arkansas, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, Jackson, Mississippi

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Little Rock, Arkansas