Civil Rights

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What was the goal of the Civil Rights Movement?

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Equality and democracy

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Why was Brown v. Board of Education famous?

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To rule that it is illegal to 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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An organization formed in 1960 to coordinate sit-ins and other protests and to give young blacks a larger role in the civil rights movement.

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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Literacy tests & poll taxes were used in the South to keep African Americans from doing what?

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voting

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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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What was the common goal of the sit-in movement and the Freedom Rides?

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to end segregation in all public areas

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Who did the Southern Christian Leadership Conference elect as its first leader? Options: Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson, Martin Luther King Jr., Thurgood Marshall

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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What movement during the 1920s helped inspire the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s? Options: Great Migration, Prohibition, NAACP, Harlem Renaissance

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Harlem Renaissance