Chapter 1 - The Civil Rights Movement

Question 1

Who went on to be a Supreme Court justice

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Thurgood Marshall

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In the early 1950s five school segregation cases from Delaware, Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., came together under the title of

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Brown v. Board of Education

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It allowed nine outstanding black students to attend Central High School

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Little Rock nine

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Refused to give up her seat to a white man

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Rosa Parks

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Thousands of black people stopped riding the buses

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Montgomery bus boycott

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A young Baptist Minister. Leader of MIA

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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A demonstration in which protesters sit down and refuse to leave

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Sit-in

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To continue the struggle for civil rights, the leaders of the student protest formed the

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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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Became the youngest person to be elected to president

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John F. Kennedy

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To accomplish this,CORE organized a series of protests called the. White and black bus riders rode on the same bus.

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Freedom Rides

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A massive demonstration for Civil rights

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March on Washington

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Vice President was quickly sworn in as president

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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The act banned segregation in public places. It also outlawed discrimination in the workplace on the basis of color, gender, religion, or national origin

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Civil rights act of 1964

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Johnson signed into law in August. This law gave the federal government new powers to protect African Americans’ voting rights

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Voting rights act of 1965

Question 15

Program of domestic reforms that he called the

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Great Society

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Movement which called for African Americans independence

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Black Power

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Helped inspire the Black power movement

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Malcom X

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Was one of man Hispanic Americans who worked to improve conditions .

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Cesar Chavez

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This union was committed to the goal of better pay and working conditions for migrant farmworkers—those who move seasonally from farm to farm

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United Farm Workers

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Author for the feminine mystique

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Betty Friedan

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To fight for equal educational and career opportunities for women

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National Organization for Women

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First African American to be elected to U.S. Congress

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Shirley Chisholm

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Would outlaw all discrimination based on sex

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Equal rights amendment

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A conservative, founded the group STOP ERA to prevent its ratification

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Phyllis Schlafly

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Founded in 1968 to fight for Native Americans’ rights

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American Indian Movement

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To make people aware of challenges facing people with disabilities

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Disabled in Action