The Civil Rights Movement

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What NAACP attorney argued for Linda Brown?

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Thurgood Marshall

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What former Supreme Court decision did the Brown decision strike down?

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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What Constitutional Amendment did the Brown decision violate?

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Fourteenth Amendment

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What was the time frame for integration of schools in the U.S. according to the Brown II case?

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All deliberate speed

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What was the Southern Manifesto?

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A pledge to oppose Brown.

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Who was Emmet Till?

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A Chicago Black teen killed in MS

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After the murderers confessed, what was the all-white jury's decision in the Emmet Till case?

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Acquitted the killers

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How did Governor Orval Faubus react to the Supreme Court decision?

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He refused integration in Little Rock HS

Front

Who sent troops to protect nine black students from white mobs?

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President Eisenhower

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What is the significance of the Supreme Court case, Cooper v. Aaron?

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It barred states from interfering in integration.