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Chapter 20
Civil Rights Movement
1.
The ____________ (S/N) had the highest number of African Americans.
2.
When WWII began in 1939-1945 segregation was still practiced.
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but it changed b/c they had to
all fight together for the same
reason= freedom
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some African Americans were
hesitant because they knew when
they got back things would be segregated
again.
3.
What is the NAACP- ______________________________________________
* What did it do for African Americans?
______________________________
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4.
In 1954, a court case changed the 1896 verdict in Plessy vs.
Ferguson that
separate but equal is legal- what was this case? What did
it do?
_____________
____________________________________________________________________
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5. 1955- a woman named _________ ___________ did not want to give up
her
seat on the bus in Montgomery, AL. to a white woman.
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As a result of her arrest,
African Americans boycotted the bus system
of Alabama.
6.
1963- __________ _________ and ____________ _____________ were the
first African American graduates of UGA.
7. 1957- Civil Rights Movement
* SCLC-
_____________________________________________- their goal
was to end segregation with nonviolence.
* __________ _________ __________- was the
president from 1961-1963.
* SNCC-
_________________________________________
8. PAGE 313-
Describe Martin Luther King?
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_____________________________________________________________________ 9. In 1964- the Civil Rights Act was passed- it stated: ______________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 10. In 1965- a voting g rights act was passed- it stated: _____________________ __________________________________________________________________ * Also in 1965, 8 African Americans were elected to public office. * In 1968, Fair Housing Act stated that there is to no discrimination in the buying and selling of real estate. 11. What is ironic about the Cold War? ____________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ |
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