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As a result of Henderson v. United States (1950),

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C. segregation on interstate forms of transportation was outlawed

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What was one effect of Jackie Robinson's joining Major League Baseball?

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C.Other minorities began to play professional baseball

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When some people reacted negatively to Jackie Robinson's presence on the Brooklyn Dodgers, baseball officials

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B.actively worked to stop the dissent

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Branch Rickey was

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A.a white general manager who opposed segregation in baseball

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Who worked against Truman's efforts to desegregate the military?

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D.Southern Democrats

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The first African American player in Major League Baseball was

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C.Jackie Robinson

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Which best states how and when desegregation occurred in the US military?

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D.President Truman desegregated the military after the end of World War II.

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Which statement best summarizes the career of Thurgood Marshall?

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D.After working for the NAACP and winning twenty-nine court cases, Marshall was appointed a Supreme Court justice.

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Which statement best describes how Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson affected American culture?

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B.They showed the country that integration could be successful.

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Who pressured President Roosevelt to end discrimination in the defense industry?

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C.A. Philip Randolph

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The Southern Manifesto was a document that declared the intent of

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C.Southern lawmakers to oppose desegregation.

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At the time of the Brown v. Board of Education decision,

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B.several states had laws requiring segregated schools.

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An argument made by Thurgood Marshall that helped shape the Brown v. Board of Education decision was that

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B.separate facilities are unequal and make African American children feel inferior.

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The governor of Arkansas who used National Guard troops to fight integration at Central High School in Little Rock was

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C.Orval Faubus.

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Which best describes the NAACP's strategy for ending segregation in public schools?

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D.The NAACP challenged segregation by filing lawsuits in several states.

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Which best describes how the Supreme Court voted in Brown v. Board of Education?

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D.The court voted to end segregation.

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Which called on states to desegregate "with all deliberate speed"?

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C.Brown II

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The ruling in Brown v. Board of Education did not immediately end segregation in public schools because

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B.the Supreme Court did not offer a new policy.

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The governor of Arkansas justified his refusal to allow integration of Central High School in Little Rock by claiming that

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C.he was acting to protect the public.

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Brown v. Board of Education marked the NAACP's greatest success in its fight to

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B.end segregation in all public education.

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The Congress of Racial Equality

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C.used sit-ins in the 1940s to encourage integration.

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The actions of four African American college students at a lunch counter in 1960 started a

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A.sit-in movement.

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The philosophies of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. are best described as

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C.drastically different.

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Although the many advocacy groups of the 1960s led different types of protests, most

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A.used nonviolent resistance effectively.

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Which group was a result of the sit-in movement?

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D.the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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Elijah Muhammad, a leader of the Nation of Islam, promoted

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B.black nationalism.

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An African American organization founded in Detroit in 1930 was

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D.the Nation of Islam.

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott proved that

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A.change could be achieved through peaceful means.

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was based on the principle of

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C.nonviolent resistance.

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A difference between Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X was that the former believed in

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B.integrating whites and African Americans.

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How did President Kennedy respond to the violence in Birmingham?

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D.He promoted civil rights laws such as the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

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What thoughts did President Kennedy most likely have in reaction to the violence in Birmingham?

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B.New laws were needed to protect the rights of African Americans.

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Which best describes the ideas of Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama?

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D.Wallace wanted to block integration at the University of Alabama.

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In 1964, the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee launched

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D.a campaign to register African American voters.

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Which occurred after James Meredith won the right to legally attend the University of Mississippi?

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A.The governor and university officials blocked him from enrolling.

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The Universities of Alabama and Mississippi were able to integrate because

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C.the federal government became involved.

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Which best describes how civil rights workers were treated during the Freedom Summer campaign?

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B.Some workers were arrested or killed.

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What did Martin Luther King Jr. do as a call for action in Birmingham in 1963?

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D.He wrote a letter describing the violence African Americans faced.

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How were the initial sit-ins during the Birmingham Campaign of 1963 received?

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C.Many people paid little attention to them.

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James Meredith took his case against the University of Mississippi to

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C.the US Supreme Court.

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A result of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was that

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A.as African American registration increased, the number of African Americans elected increased.

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During the 1960s, a federal civil rights act became necessary because

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B.it was the only way to end Jim Crow laws.

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During the first Selma voting rights march on March 7, 1965,

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B.marchers were attacked by police as they crossed a bridge.

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Literacy tests were banned by

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D.the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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Which aspect of the March on Washington sent a powerful statement to the United States and the world?

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D.the size of the crowd that attended

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Who gave an historically important speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?

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B.Martin Luther King Jr.

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Civil rights leaders wanted a strong federal law that would

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B.outlaw all discrimination on the basis of race.

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Which kept African Americans from nominating candidates for office?

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C.white primaries

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How was African American voter registration affected by the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

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C.It increased significantly.

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Which best describes the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

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D.It protected voting rights for all Americans by taking away qualifications.

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Elijah Muhammad, a leader of the Nation of Islam, believed that

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A.African Americans should assert themselves against white power.

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Which provisions did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 include?

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D.new enforcement tools for federal laws

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Which best describes the actions of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee?

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D.organizing the March on Washington

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A result of the Selma voting rights marches was that

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C.support for voting rights increased.

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A group that oversaw the Montgomery Bus Boycott and produced important civil rights leaders was

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B.the Montgomery Improvement Association.

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Brown v. Board of Education was argued before the Supreme Court by

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A.Thurgood Marshall.

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Which did President Kennedy send to the universities of Alabama and Mississippi in 1963?

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D.federal troops

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Long after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, some states had not desegregated their schools because

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D.the Supreme Court had not set a deadline for doing so.

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Why did Major League Baseball owners support segregation by 1890?

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C.They feared that white audiences would not pay to watch African American players.

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Which event occurred in August of 1963?

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C.the March on Washington

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Which was the result of a bomb that exploded at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham?

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B.Four young girls were killed.

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Who declared that organized resistance by Southern states would prevent racial integration in the South?

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A.Harry Flood Byrd

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Which best describes the US armed forces during World War II?

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D.segregated

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A civil rights activist who was shot and killed because of his efforts to register African American voters was

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C.Medgar Evers.

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What strategy did the NAACP use to try to end segregation?

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B.arguing legal cases in court

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