What two specific activities are protected from discrimination?
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Voting and employment
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How did T. Eugene Connor react to civil rights marchers in Birmingham, Alabama?
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He ordered the use of police dogs and fire hoses against the marchers
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While in prison, Malcolm X became a convert to
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the Nation of Islam.
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What was the significance of Hernandez v. Texas?
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It extended Fourteenth Amendment protections to Mexican Americans
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In what way did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 affect employment in the United States?
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It outlawed job discrimination and created the EEOC to investigate charges of job
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The first of the confrontations on the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the march on Selma became known as
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Bloody Sunday.
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The members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) believed
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that direct, nonviolent methods could gain civil rights for African Americans.
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In return for the desegregation of interstate transportation,
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the Kennedy administration agreed not to stop the arrest of Mississippi activists.
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Which civil rights organization won a number of important court cases against segregation in the 1950s?
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NAACP
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To which city did President Eisenhower send federal troops to protect African American students?
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Montgomery, Alabama
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At what point did the Black Panthers believe that African Americans would become "free"?
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When they gained full control of their community institutions
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Who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
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President Johnson
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What were Jim Crow laws?
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They were laws that enforced the strict separation of the races
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Which of these African Americans is famous for breaking into major league baseball?
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Jackie Robinson
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When three civil rights workers disappeared during Freedom Summer, the SNCC claimed that they had been
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murdered.
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What civil rights measure was passed by Congress shortly after King's assassination?
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The Fair Housing Act
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What happened in hundreds of cities immediately after the assassination of Martin Luther King?
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Riots broke out
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Why were many Americans surprised when President Johnson supported civil rights?
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He was a Southerner with an undistinguished record on racial matters
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The conflict at Little Rock's Central high School was a reaction to
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Brown v. Board of Education.
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Following the issuance of the Kerner Commission's findings, a number of conservative commentators
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argued against expanding federal spending for minorities.
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How did the Black Panthers exemplify the idea of "black power"?
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The Black Panthers developed programs for African Americans to help themselves and their communities
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Why did Martin Luther King target Birmingham, Alabama for a civil rights campaign?
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Because it was considered the most segregated city in the South
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Which of the following events in the Civil Rights movement preceded the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
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The Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Alabama.
Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at The March on Washington.
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At what school was there major rioting over James Meredith's enrollment?
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The University of Mississippi
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How long did the Montgomery bus boycott last?
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More than a year
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In response to riots over desegregation the University of Mississippi, President Kennedy declared that
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Americans were free to disagree with the law but not to disobey it.
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Not long after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, African Americans in several cities
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assumed public office.
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In a ruling known as Brown II, the Supreme Court
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ordered the immediate implementation of Brown v. Board of Education.
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