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1
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What is the Ku Klux Klan?

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An organization that despised black people and hated on them with hate and violence

2
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What were the Jim Crow Laws?

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They were laws that enforced racial segregation in the southern US.

3
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What is Jim Crow?

A

Jim Crow is a fictional white character pretending to be a black man.

4
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When was the first KKK?

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1866-1871

5
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When was the second KKK?

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1915-1944

6
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When was the third KKK?

A

1950-1960

7
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Give 8 places where the Jim Crow Laws were able to segregate it.

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marriage, housing, restaurants, entertainment, voting, transportation, hospitals, adoptions

8
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Name 5 violent methods the KKK used against blacks

A

lynching, banners, fear, attacks, set fire to crosses

9
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What does the NAACP stand for?

A

National Association for Advancement of colored people

10
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What does CORE stand for?

A

Congress of Racial Equality

11
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What did the NAACP and CORE challenge?

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They challenged that black people shouldn’t be segregated in schools and they compared the black and white education.

12
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What 5 subjects did white people study in universities?

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Law, Medicine, Library Science, Pharmacy, social work

13
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What 2 subjects did Blacks study in universities?

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Law and Library science

14
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Who supported the creation for racially mixed units?

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General Eisenhower in the army

15
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How many people were doing crucial jobs in the army?

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2 million

16
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What did Roosevelt set up to check if discrimination was happening?

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The Fair Employment Practices Committee in 1941

17
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When was the CORE set up?

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1942

18
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What were the four black freedoms?

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freedom of speech and expression, freedom of want, freedom from fear, freedom of worship

19
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Why did Roosevelt not give any war-contracts in 1943?

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Because they practiced racial discrimination

20
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How did African Americans benefit from WW2?

A

They got better wages

21
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From how much to how much did the NAACP increase in size?

A

from 50000 to 450,000

22
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What did newspapers organize?

A

The double V campaign

23
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In 1950 what decisions were made by the Supreme court? (2)

A

That black children should not be segregated in a school. It also made a decision to compare the white and black education.

24
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Why did Brown start a court case? And with whom?

A

Brown started a court case with NAACP to challenge the Supreme Court for segregation in education.

25
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What was the case called?

A

Brown v Topeka Board of Education

26
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Who was Linda Brown?

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Linda Brown was a 7 year old girl that had to walk a mile to go to her school everyday although there was a closer white school nearby. She was the first black girl to be integrated into a white school.

27
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Who won the case?

A

The Browns.

28
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When were school desegregated?

A

in 1954

29
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Who started the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

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Rosa Parks

30
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What did Rosa Parks do?

A

She refused to give up her seat on a bus

31
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What happened to Rosa Parks after that?

A

She got arrested and was fined.

32
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When did the boycott start?

A

1955

33
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When was the Freedom Riders?

A

May 1961

34
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What was the Freedom Riders all about?

A

200 black people rode on the bus to Montgomery, Alabama to desegregate transportation.

35
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What happened to these protesters?

A

they were thrown in jail for 40 days

36
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What does the SNCC stand for?

A

Student Non-violent coordinating committee

37
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What were the lunch sit ins?

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They were a campaign by the SNCC to desegregate restaurants?

38
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When did the lunch sit ins happen?

A

1960

39
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By 1960 how many restaurants were desegregated?

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121

40
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What was the Black Panther?

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They were an organization that protected themselves from the police using weapons.

41
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Write 7 things that the Black Panther wanted.

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Freedom , decant housing, their right back just like the Jews got from the Germans, education, end to police brutality, freedom for black men that didn’t get a fair train and also for the black community to judge the trial.

42
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What was the Voter Education Project?

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It was a project organised by the government and the students in attempt to allow black people to vote.

43
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What was outlawed in 1964?

A

the Kennedy integration law

44
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What was outlawed in 1965?

A

Voting Acts Right

45
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What was outlawed in 1967?

A

Prevention of Inter Racial marriage

46
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What was outlawed in 1968?

A

Prevention of segregation in housing.

47
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When was the first black mayor elected and where?

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In 1967 in Cleveland

48
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By 1985 what happened to the blacks regarding politics?

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10% of elected officials were blacks

49
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Who was leader of the year- long boycott?

A

MLK

50
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Who was the face of the civil Rights Movement?

A

MLK

51
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Who was MLK influenced by?

A

Gandhi

52
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What did MLK believe in?

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Fairness, forgiveness and non-violence

53
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What did MLK organize?

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Demonstations

54
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In which demonstration did he get imprisoned?

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in 1963

55
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What happened during this demonstration?

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Chief Bull Conner came with fire hoses electrical wire dogs and arrested them all.

56
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What did MLK organize on August 1963?

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A march is Washington D.C.

57
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How many people were at the demonstration?

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250,000 people

58
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What was MLK famous speech called?

A

I have a dream speech

59
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When was King assassinated?

A

1968

60
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What did Malcolm X believe in?

A

In violence and self-defense

61
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What did Malcolm X set up?

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the nation of Islam

62
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What did Malcolm X argue for?

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For black separatism

63
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When was Malcolm X assassinated?

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1965

64
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Where and when was the worst riot?

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In watts, L.A in 1965.

65
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how long did the riot last for?

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6 days

66
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How many people were killed at that riot?

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34 people

67
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How many people altogether died in riots?

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81 people

68
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How was elected leader of the SNCC in 1967?

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Stokley Carmichael