16 Study Guide Test - Civil Rights MovementOnline version
Civil Rights Movement
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King selected Selma, ____ for a march, because African Americans made up the majority of the population, but only 3% of registered voters. Many protesters were beaten in front of TV cameras (bloody sunday), which led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965
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____ v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) was a landmark Supreme Court case that unanimously declared state-sponsored segregation of public schools unconstitutional, overturning the "separate but equal" doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson.
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Civil rights leaders planned a march on washington. August, 1963, & King delivered his "I ____ a ____" speech, calling for equality for all Americans. This led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which made segregation illegal in most public places.
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After 1965, many African Americans (especially urban young people) turned away from King, & some leaders called for more _____ forms of protest, like Malcolm X and the Black Panthers.
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Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus ordered National Guard to prevent 9 African Americans from entering Central ____ ____ . Violence in Little Rock convinced Eisenhower to order the U.S. Army to encircled the ____ ____ , bayonets ready.
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King wrote the “Letter from Birmingham ____ .” He argued that “there are two types of laws: just and unjust . . . [and] one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws .”
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____ ____ ____ earned a Ph.D. in theology and believed the only way to end segregation was through nonviolent passive resistance , “We will wear you down by our capacity to suffer”
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LAter, Many African Americans called for more more aggressive protests, and for racial pride & not adapting dominant culture; Early 1960s, ___ -X became a symbol of the black power movement. He advocated for equality "by any means necessary"
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Malcolm X became discouraged by scandals involving his religious leader, Elijah Muhammad. 1965, Malcolm X continued to criticize the ____ of ____ , and later members of this religious group shot & killed him.
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Four African American students were the first to use a sit-in protest activity, using it at a _____ 's Department Store in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Malcolm X’s ideas influenced a new generation of militant African American leaders, such as Huey P. Newton & Bobby Seale in Oakland, California, who organized the ____ ____ .
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March on Washington, King gave his "I have a dream" speech, & afterward The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, most comprehensive civil rights law Congress had ever enacted. The law made ____ illegal.
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Protestors marched across a bridge in Selma, AL & were beaten in front of TV cameras, known as “bloody sunday.” Then, 1965, ____ ____ Act of 1965 authorized the U.S. attorney general to send federal examiners to register African-American voters
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Civil rights leaders kept the pressure on legislators and the president by planning a large-scale ____ on ____ . August, 1963, 250,000 demonstrators gathered near the Lincoln Memorial. This led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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During Brown v. School Board, Jo Ann Robinson called on African Americans to ____ buses when Rosa Parks appeared in court, starting a new era of the civil rights movement. This movement was led by Martin Luther King Jr.
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