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

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Which of the following names an NAACP member who became the first African American Supreme Court justice?

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B.) Thurgood Marshall

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

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C.) Thurgood Marshall.

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Which of the following best describes how Brown v. Board of Education affected the United States?

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D.) It dealt a blow to segregation in public facilities.

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Which of the following encouraged the NAACP to become involved with Reverend Oliver Brown's lawsuit against a board of education in Kansas?

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D.) the Supreme Court's decision in Sweatt v. Painter

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The decision in 1950 by the Supreme Court that banned "separate but equal" law schools in Texas

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B.) forced graduate schools across the country to integrate.

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Which of the following best describes the 1957 events at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas?

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A.) Governor Faubus resisted the school's integration with National Guard troops, and President Eisenhower sent federal troops to enforce integration.

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Which of the following 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 to the Supreme Court.

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What was the difference between the Supreme Court decisions in Sweatt v. Painter and Brown v. Board of Education?

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C.) Sweatt struck down "separate but equal" graduate and professional schools. Brown struck down "separate but equal" public schools.

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The unanimous Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education was written by

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B.) Earl Warren.

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Which best describes how the Montgomery Bus Boycott affected the civil rights movement?

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B.) The boycott started a massive nonviolent movement.

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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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Both the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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B.) organized freedom rides in the South.

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A reason for the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott was

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A.) that the bus companies lost business.

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A direct result of Rosa Park's refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955 was

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C.) the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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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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Which best describes the social impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

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B.) It inspired similar boycotts in other cities across the nation

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One of the guiding principles of the Nation of Islam was

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A.) gaining economic power for African Americans.

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In December of 1956, the Supreme Court ended the bus boycott by ruling that

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A.) Alabama's segregation laws were unconstitutional.

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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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Although Brown v. Board of Education established that the segregation of schools was unconstitutional,

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A.) many white Southerners strongly resisted integration.

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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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Eugene "Bull" Connor, the commissioner of public safety in Birmingham in the 1960s,

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D.) led a violent crackdown on civil rights protests.

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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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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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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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The Freedom Summer campaign led to

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D.) the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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Which word best describes the response of the public to the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on September 15, 1963?

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A.) outrage

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During the Children's Crusade in Birmingham in May of 1963,

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C.) the police used fire hoses on protesters.

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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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The first draft of the Civil Rights Act was proposed by

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C.) John F. Kennedy.

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Which kept African Americans from nominating candidates for office?

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C.) white primaries

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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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The "I Have a Dream" speech referred to which historic American document?

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C.) the Declaration of Independence

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Who urged Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act as part of his vision for a "Great Society"?

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C.) Lyndon B. Johnson

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The Civil Rights Act that passed in 1964

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A.) was stronger than the first draft of the act.

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Literacy tests were banned by

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D.) the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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A goal of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was to

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A.) demand legal equality for African Americans.

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How did the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 affect voter registration rates in the United States in the decades that followed?

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B.) African American voter registration rates equaled white registration rates.

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In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was unconstitutional in

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B.) schools.

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In Wesberry v. Sanders, James Sanders argued that the county unit system gave too much power to

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B.) rural counties.

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This graph shows the racial composition of Georgia's public schools in 2014. Image--> http://media.edgenuity.com/evresources/3317/3317-09/3317-09-01/3317-09-01-assessment/3317-09-01-15-image1.png According to the graph, the majority of Georgia public school students in 2014 were

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B.) non-white.

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Read the quote by Martin Luther King Jr. Image--> http://media.edgenuity.com/evresources/3317/3317-09/3317-09-01/3317-09-01-assessment/3317-09-01-20-image1.png Which is the best meaning of Dr. King's words?

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B.) If people are courageous in their struggle for equal rights, then they are on the path to success.

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Which best describes the process of ending segregation in Georgia?

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B.) difficult and slow

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By cutting off the funding of schools that had desegregated, Georgia's General Assembly showed that it would

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A.) fight the Court's ruling in Brown.

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In 1964 and 1965, the federal government passed laws that

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D.) protected the rights of all voters.

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In Wesberry v. Sanders, the Supreme Court ruled that

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B.) voting districts must represent voters fairly.

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What is the best description of Martin Luther King Jr.?

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B.) the civil rights leader who helped organize a famous bus boycott

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The first African American students attended the University of Georgia in ____ .

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1961

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