Civil Rights

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What court case made segregation of schools illegal in the 1950s?

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Brown V. Board of Education

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Which leader of the civil rights movement used non-violent civil disobedience to oppose segregation in the south?

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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What was the significance of sending federal troops to protect African-American students in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957?

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It showed that the government would enforce court decisions on integration.

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In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of his dream that the United States would reach a time, "..when all of God's children, black men and white men, . . . will be able to join hands.." This speech expressed his desire to-

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Replace racial segregation with an integrated society

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In his "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail", Dr. King said, "I would agree with Saint Augustine that 'an unjust law is no law at all.'" This statement was used by Dr. King to show support for: Social Darwinism, Separation of church and state, Jim Crow Laws, Civil Disobedience

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Civil Disobedience

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Civil Rights legislation that outlawed the use of literacy tests & poll taxes; enforced the 15th amendment

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

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Young man's death, from Chicago, in Mississippi for allegedly "whistling" at a white woman; mother showed the world what life for blacks was like in the South

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Emmett Till

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380 days of bus boycott in Alabama due to the unlawful arrest of Rosa Parks; displayed the unconstitutional segregation on public buses

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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President Truman instituted this executive order to initiate the desegregation/integration of America's armed forces.

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Executive Order 9981

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Civil Rights organization founded by Martin Luther King Jr.; sought racial equality and the ending of Jim Crow Laws & enforcement of the 15th amendment

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference