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Answer the following questions : -Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters


A) The conviction that individuals require government protection from discrimination.This version of liberalism was promoted by the civil rights and women's movements and focused on identities-such as race or gender-rather than the general social welfare of New Deal liberalism.
B) Civil rights organization founded in 1942 in Chicago by James Farmer and other members of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) that espoused nonviolent direct action.In 1961 this group organized a series of what were called Freedom Rides on interstate bus lines throughout the South to call attention to blatant violations of recent Supreme Court rulings against segregation in interstate commerce.
C) System of racial segregation in the South that lasted a century,from after the Civil War until the 1960s.
D) A prominent black trade union of railroad car porters working for the Pullman Company.
E) The 1947 report by the Presidential Committee on Civil Rights that called for robust federal action to ensure equality for African Americans.President Truman asked Congress to make all of the report's recommendations-including the abolition of poll taxes and the restoration of the Fair Employment Practice Committee-into law,leading to discord in the Democratic Party.
F) A breakaway party of white Democrats from the South,formed for the 1948 election.Its formation shed light on an internal struggle between the civil rights aims of the party's liberal wing and southern white Democrats.
G) A group founded by World War II veterans in Corpus Christi,Texas,in 1948 to protest the poor treatment of Mexican American soldiers and veterans.
H) A Latino civil rights group founded in Los Angeles in 1947,which trained many Latino politicians and community activists,including Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta.
I) Supreme Court ruling that overturned the "separate but equal" precedent established in Plessy v.Ferguson in 1896.The Court declared that separate educational facilities were inherently unequal and thus violated the Fourteenth Amendment.
J) Yearlong boycott of this city's segregated bus system in 1955-1956 by the city's African American population.The boycott brought Martin Luther King Jr.to national prominence and ended in victory when the Supreme Court declared segregated seating on public transportation unconstitutional.
K) After the Montgomery Bus Boycott,Martin Luther King Jr.and other civil rights leaders formed this organization in 1957 to coordinate civil rights activity in the South.
L) A student civil rights group founded in 1960 under the mentorship of activist Ella Baker.The group initially embraced an interracial and nonhierarchical structure that encouraged leadership at the grassroots level and practiced the civil disobedience principles of Martin Luther King Jr.As violence against civil rights activists escalated nationwide in the 1960s,the group expelled nonblack members and promoted "black power" and the teachings of Malcolm X.
M) On August 28,1963,a quarter of a million people marched to the Lincoln Memorial to demand that Congress end Jim Crow racial discrimination and launch a major jobs program to bring needed employment to black communities.
N) Law that responded to demands of the civil rights movement by making discrimination in employment,education,and public accommodations illegal.It was the strongest such measure since Reconstruction and included a ban on sex discrimination in employment.
O) Party founded in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964.Its members attempted to attend the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City,New Jersey,as the legitimate representatives of their state,but Democratic leaders refused to recognize the party.
P) Law passed during Lyndon Johnson's administration that empowered the federal government to intervene to ensure minorities' access to the voting booth.
Q) A major strain of African American thought that emphasized black racial pride and autonomy.Present in black communities for centuries,it periodically came to the fore,as in Marcus Garvey's pan-Africanist movement in the early twentieth century and in various organizations in the 1960s and 1970s,such as the Nation of Islam and the Black Panther Party.
R) A religion founded in the United States that became a leading source of black nationalist thought in the 1960s.Black Muslims preached an apocalyptic brand of this religion,anticipating the day when Allah would banish the white "devils" and give the black nation justice.
S) A militant organization dedicated to protecting African Americans from police violence,founded in Oakland,California,in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.In the late 1960s the organization spread to other cities,where members undertook a wide range of community-organizing projects,but the Panthers' radicalism and belief in armed self-defense resulted in violent clashes with police.
T) An organization that sought self-determination for Puerto Ricans in the United States and in the Caribbean.Though immediate victories for the group were few,their dedicated community organizing produced a generation of leaders and awakened community consciousness.
U) A union of farmworkers founded in 1962 by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta that sought to empower the mostly Mexican American migrant farmworkers who faced discrimination and exploitative conditions,especially in the Southwest.
V) A Mexican American civil rights organization founded in 1967 and based on the model of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.This Mexican American civil rights organization focused on legal issues and endeavored to win protections against discrimination through court decisions.
W) Founded in Texas in 1970 by Mexican Americans as an alternative to the two major political parties,the organization ran candidates for state governor and other local government positions in the 1970s.It was an expression of the Chicano/a movement and its attempts to create political unity among American citizens of Mexican descent.
X) Organization established in 1968 to address the problems Indians faced in American cities,including poverty and police harassment.The group organized Indians to end relocation and termination policies and to win greater control over their cultures and communities.

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Malcolm X and the Black Muslims pursued a philosophy that differed dramatically from that of


A) Stokely Carmichael.
B) Bobby Seale.
C) Martin Luther King Jr.
D) Huey Newton.

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How would you explain the rise of the protest movement after 1955? How did nonviolent tactics help the movement?

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For this question,refer to the following map: "Black Voter Registration in the South,1964 and 1975." For this question,refer to the following map:  Black Voter Registration in the South,1964 and 1975.    The data expressed on the map above most clearly shows the influence of A)  continued white resistance to integration. B)  decision-makers in each of the three branches of government promoting greater racial justice. C)  legal challenges and direct action to combat racial discrimination. D)  tensions among civil rights activists over tactical and philosophical issues. The data expressed on the map above most clearly shows the influence of


A) continued white resistance to integration.
B) decision-makers in each of the three branches of government promoting greater racial justice.
C) legal challenges and direct action to combat racial discrimination.
D) tensions among civil rights activists over tactical and philosophical issues.

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How did the civil rights movement create a crisis in liberalism and in the Democratic Party in the 1960s?

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Which pair is properly matched?


A) CORE-organized freedom rides
B) SNCC- Martin Luther King was its leader
C) SCLC-united agencies serving black city dwellers
D) NAACP-organized student sit-ins

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Answer the following questions : -rights liberalism


A) The conviction that individuals require government protection from discrimination.This version of liberalism was promoted by the civil rights and women's movements and focused on identities-such as race or gender-rather than the general social welfare of New Deal liberalism.
B) Civil rights organization founded in 1942 in Chicago by James Farmer and other members of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) that espoused nonviolent direct action.In 1961 this group organized a series of what were called Freedom Rides on interstate bus lines throughout the South to call attention to blatant violations of recent Supreme Court rulings against segregation in interstate commerce.
C) System of racial segregation in the South that lasted a century,from after the Civil War until the 1960s.
D) A prominent black trade union of railroad car porters working for the Pullman Company.
E) The 1947 report by the Presidential Committee on Civil Rights that called for robust federal action to ensure equality for African Americans.President Truman asked Congress to make all of the report's recommendations-including the abolition of poll taxes and the restoration of the Fair Employment Practice Committee-into law,leading to discord in the Democratic Party.
F) A breakaway party of white Democrats from the South,formed for the 1948 election.Its formation shed light on an internal struggle between the civil rights aims of the party's liberal wing and southern white Democrats.
G) A group founded by World War II veterans in Corpus Christi,Texas,in 1948 to protest the poor treatment of Mexican American soldiers and veterans.
H) A Latino civil rights group founded in Los Angeles in 1947,which trained many Latino politicians and community activists,including Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta.
I) Supreme Court ruling that overturned the "separate but equal" precedent established in Plessy v.Ferguson in 1896.The Court declared that separate educational facilities were inherently unequal and thus violated the Fourteenth Amendment.
J) Yearlong boycott of this city's segregated bus system in 1955-1956 by the city's African American population.The boycott brought Martin Luther King Jr.to national prominence and ended in victory when the Supreme Court declared segregated seating on public transportation unconstitutional.
K) After the Montgomery Bus Boycott,Martin Luther King Jr.and other civil rights leaders formed this organization in 1957 to coordinate civil rights activity in the South.
L) A student civil rights group founded in 1960 under the mentorship of activist Ella Baker.The group initially embraced an interracial and nonhierarchical structure that encouraged leadership at the grassroots level and practiced the civil disobedience principles of Martin Luther King Jr.As violence against civil rights activists escalated nationwide in the 1960s,the group expelled nonblack members and promoted "black power" and the teachings of Malcolm X.
M) On August 28,1963,a quarter of a million people marched to the Lincoln Memorial to demand that Congress end Jim Crow racial discrimination and launch a major jobs program to bring needed employment to black communities.
N) Law that responded to demands of the civil rights movement by making discrimination in employment,education,and public accommodations illegal.It was the strongest such measure since Reconstruction and included a ban on sex discrimination in employment.
O) Party founded in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964.Its members attempted to attend the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City,New Jersey,as the legitimate representatives of their state,but Democratic leaders refused to recognize the party.
P) Law passed during Lyndon Johnson's administration that empowered the federal government to intervene to ensure minorities' access to the voting booth.
Q) A major strain of African American thought that emphasized black racial pride and autonomy.Present in black communities for centuries,it periodically came to the fore,as in Marcus Garvey's pan-Africanist movement in the early twentieth century and in various organizations in the 1960s and 1970s,such as the Nation of Islam and the Black Panther Party.
R) A religion founded in the United States that became a leading source of black nationalist thought in the 1960s.Black Muslims preached an apocalyptic brand of this religion,anticipating the day when Allah would banish the white "devils" and give the black nation justice.
S) A militant organization dedicated to protecting African Americans from police violence,founded in Oakland,California,in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.In the late 1960s the organization spread to other cities,where members undertook a wide range of community-organizing projects,but the Panthers' radicalism and belief in armed self-defense resulted in violent clashes with police.
T) An organization that sought self-determination for Puerto Ricans in the United States and in the Caribbean.Though immediate victories for the group were few,their dedicated community organizing produced a generation of leaders and awakened community consciousness.
U) A union of farmworkers founded in 1962 by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta that sought to empower the mostly Mexican American migrant farmworkers who faced discrimination and exploitative conditions,especially in the Southwest.
V) A Mexican American civil rights organization founded in 1967 and based on the model of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.This Mexican American civil rights organization focused on legal issues and endeavored to win protections against discrimination through court decisions.
W) Founded in Texas in 1970 by Mexican Americans as an alternative to the two major political parties,the organization ran candidates for state governor and other local government positions in the 1970s.It was an expression of the Chicano/a movement and its attempts to create political unity among American citizens of Mexican descent.
X) Organization established in 1968 to address the problems Indians faced in American cities,including poverty and police harassment.The group organized Indians to end relocation and termination policies and to win greater control over their cultures and communities.

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What major change occurred in Mexican American activism during the 1960s?


A) Mexican Americans abandoned their generally pro-Republican political sympathies and gave their allegiance primarily to the Democrats.
B) The Mexican American Political Association (MAPA) emerged as their radical voice.
C) Poverty,language barriers,and uncertain legal status made them increasingly unwilling to get involved in politics.
D) In 1969,a large group of Mexican American students met in Denver to hammer out a national Chicano agenda.

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Answer the following questions : -American Indian Movement (AIM)


A) The conviction that individuals require government protection from discrimination.This version of liberalism was promoted by the civil rights and women's movements and focused on identities-such as race or gender-rather than the general social welfare of New Deal liberalism.
B) Civil rights organization founded in 1942 in Chicago by James Farmer and other members of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) that espoused nonviolent direct action.In 1961 this group organized a series of what were called Freedom Rides on interstate bus lines throughout the South to call attention to blatant violations of recent Supreme Court rulings against segregation in interstate commerce.
C) System of racial segregation in the South that lasted a century,from after the Civil War until the 1960s.
D) A prominent black trade union of railroad car porters working for the Pullman Company.
E) The 1947 report by the Presidential Committee on Civil Rights that called for robust federal action to ensure equality for African Americans.President Truman asked Congress to make all of the report's recommendations-including the abolition of poll taxes and the restoration of the Fair Employment Practice Committee-into law,leading to discord in the Democratic Party.
F) A breakaway party of white Democrats from the South,formed for the 1948 election.Its formation shed light on an internal struggle between the civil rights aims of the party's liberal wing and southern white Democrats.
G) A group founded by World War II veterans in Corpus Christi,Texas,in 1948 to protest the poor treatment of Mexican American soldiers and veterans.
H) A Latino civil rights group founded in Los Angeles in 1947,which trained many Latino politicians and community activists,including Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta.
I) Supreme Court ruling that overturned the "separate but equal" precedent established in Plessy v.Ferguson in 1896.The Court declared that separate educational facilities were inherently unequal and thus violated the Fourteenth Amendment.
J) Yearlong boycott of this city's segregated bus system in 1955-1956 by the city's African American population.The boycott brought Martin Luther King Jr.to national prominence and ended in victory when the Supreme Court declared segregated seating on public transportation unconstitutional.
K) After the Montgomery Bus Boycott,Martin Luther King Jr.and other civil rights leaders formed this organization in 1957 to coordinate civil rights activity in the South.
L) A student civil rights group founded in 1960 under the mentorship of activist Ella Baker.The group initially embraced an interracial and nonhierarchical structure that encouraged leadership at the grassroots level and practiced the civil disobedience principles of Martin Luther King Jr.As violence against civil rights activists escalated nationwide in the 1960s,the group expelled nonblack members and promoted "black power" and the teachings of Malcolm X.
M) On August 28,1963,a quarter of a million people marched to the Lincoln Memorial to demand that Congress end Jim Crow racial discrimination and launch a major jobs program to bring needed employment to black communities.
N) Law that responded to demands of the civil rights movement by making discrimination in employment,education,and public accommodations illegal.It was the strongest such measure since Reconstruction and included a ban on sex discrimination in employment.
O) Party founded in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964.Its members attempted to attend the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City,New Jersey,as the legitimate representatives of their state,but Democratic leaders refused to recognize the party.
P) Law passed during Lyndon Johnson's administration that empowered the federal government to intervene to ensure minorities' access to the voting booth.
Q) A major strain of African American thought that emphasized black racial pride and autonomy.Present in black communities for centuries,it periodically came to the fore,as in Marcus Garvey's pan-Africanist movement in the early twentieth century and in various organizations in the 1960s and 1970s,such as the Nation of Islam and the Black Panther Party.
R) A religion founded in the United States that became a leading source of black nationalist thought in the 1960s.Black Muslims preached an apocalyptic brand of this religion,anticipating the day when Allah would banish the white "devils" and give the black nation justice.
S) A militant organization dedicated to protecting African Americans from police violence,founded in Oakland,California,in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.In the late 1960s the organization spread to other cities,where members undertook a wide range of community-organizing projects,but the Panthers' radicalism and belief in armed self-defense resulted in violent clashes with police.
T) An organization that sought self-determination for Puerto Ricans in the United States and in the Caribbean.Though immediate victories for the group were few,their dedicated community organizing produced a generation of leaders and awakened community consciousness.
U) A union of farmworkers founded in 1962 by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta that sought to empower the mostly Mexican American migrant farmworkers who faced discrimination and exploitative conditions,especially in the Southwest.
V) A Mexican American civil rights organization founded in 1967 and based on the model of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.This Mexican American civil rights organization focused on legal issues and endeavored to win protections against discrimination through court decisions.
W) Founded in Texas in 1970 by Mexican Americans as an alternative to the two major political parties,the organization ran candidates for state governor and other local government positions in the 1970s.It was an expression of the Chicano/a movement and its attempts to create political unity among American citizens of Mexican descent.
X) Organization established in 1968 to address the problems Indians faced in American cities,including poverty and police harassment.The group organized Indians to end relocation and termination policies and to win greater control over their cultures and communities.

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What was a political consequence of the national Democratic Party's embrace of civil rights in the 1960s?


A) The New Deal coalition that had first elected FDR in 1932 was strengthened.
B) The two-party system was weakened,which led to the growth of powerful independent and third parties.
C) Many southern whites left the Democratic Party to join the Republican Party in the 1970s and 1980s.
D) Race was no longer the dominant issue in presidential elections by the 1970s.

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In what ways did World War II and the Cold War help to advance the cause of civil rights?

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How did the NAACP develop a legal strategy to attack racial segregation?

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For this question,refer to the following photograph of police in Birmingham,Alabama,using dogs against peaceful African American protesters in 1963. For this question,refer to the following photograph of police in Birmingham,Alabama,using dogs against peaceful African American protesters in 1963.   The photograph above best serves as evidence of A)  public debates over the proper balance between liberty and order. B)  societal concerns about how social changes were affecting American values. C)  the prevalence and persistence of poverty as a national problem. D)  political and moral debates that sharply divided the nation. The photograph above best serves as evidence of


A) public debates over the proper balance between liberty and order.
B) societal concerns about how social changes were affecting American values.
C) the prevalence and persistence of poverty as a national problem.
D) political and moral debates that sharply divided the nation.

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Answer the following questions : -Montgomery Bus Boycott


A) The conviction that individuals require government protection from discrimination.This version of liberalism was promoted by the civil rights and women's movements and focused on identities-such as race or gender-rather than the general social welfare of New Deal liberalism.
B) Civil rights organization founded in 1942 in Chicago by James Farmer and other members of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) that espoused nonviolent direct action.In 1961 this group organized a series of what were called Freedom Rides on interstate bus lines throughout the South to call attention to blatant violations of recent Supreme Court rulings against segregation in interstate commerce.
C) System of racial segregation in the South that lasted a century,from after the Civil War until the 1960s.
D) A prominent black trade union of railroad car porters working for the Pullman Company.
E) The 1947 report by the Presidential Committee on Civil Rights that called for robust federal action to ensure equality for African Americans.President Truman asked Congress to make all of the report's recommendations-including the abolition of poll taxes and the restoration of the Fair Employment Practice Committee-into law,leading to discord in the Democratic Party.
F) A breakaway party of white Democrats from the South,formed for the 1948 election.Its formation shed light on an internal struggle between the civil rights aims of the party's liberal wing and southern white Democrats.
G) A group founded by World War II veterans in Corpus Christi,Texas,in 1948 to protest the poor treatment of Mexican American soldiers and veterans.
H) A Latino civil rights group founded in Los Angeles in 1947,which trained many Latino politicians and community activists,including Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta.
I) Supreme Court ruling that overturned the "separate but equal" precedent established in Plessy v.Ferguson in 1896.The Court declared that separate educational facilities were inherently unequal and thus violated the Fourteenth Amendment.
J) Yearlong boycott of this city's segregated bus system in 1955-1956 by the city's African American population.The boycott brought Martin Luther King Jr.to national prominence and ended in victory when the Supreme Court declared segregated seating on public transportation unconstitutional.
K) After the Montgomery Bus Boycott,Martin Luther King Jr.and other civil rights leaders formed this organization in 1957 to coordinate civil rights activity in the South.
L) A student civil rights group founded in 1960 under the mentorship of activist Ella Baker.The group initially embraced an interracial and nonhierarchical structure that encouraged leadership at the grassroots level and practiced the civil disobedience principles of Martin Luther King Jr.As violence against civil rights activists escalated nationwide in the 1960s,the group expelled nonblack members and promoted "black power" and the teachings of Malcolm X.
M) On August 28,1963,a quarter of a million people marched to the Lincoln Memorial to demand that Congress end Jim Crow racial discrimination and launch a major jobs program to bring needed employment to black communities.
N) Law that responded to demands of the civil rights movement by making discrimination in employment,education,and public accommodations illegal.It was the strongest such measure since Reconstruction and included a ban on sex discrimination in employment.
O) Party founded in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964.Its members attempted to attend the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City,New Jersey,as the legitimate representatives of their state,but Democratic leaders refused to recognize the party.
P) Law passed during Lyndon Johnson's administration that empowered the federal government to intervene to ensure minorities' access to the voting booth.
Q) A major strain of African American thought that emphasized black racial pride and autonomy.Present in black communities for centuries,it periodically came to the fore,as in Marcus Garvey's pan-Africanist movement in the early twentieth century and in various organizations in the 1960s and 1970s,such as the Nation of Islam and the Black Panther Party.
R) A religion founded in the United States that became a leading source of black nationalist thought in the 1960s.Black Muslims preached an apocalyptic brand of this religion,anticipating the day when Allah would banish the white "devils" and give the black nation justice.
S) A militant organization dedicated to protecting African Americans from police violence,founded in Oakland,California,in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.In the late 1960s the organization spread to other cities,where members undertook a wide range of community-organizing projects,but the Panthers' radicalism and belief in armed self-defense resulted in violent clashes with police.
T) An organization that sought self-determination for Puerto Ricans in the United States and in the Caribbean.Though immediate victories for the group were few,their dedicated community organizing produced a generation of leaders and awakened community consciousness.
U) A union of farmworkers founded in 1962 by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta that sought to empower the mostly Mexican American migrant farmworkers who faced discrimination and exploitative conditions,especially in the Southwest.
V) A Mexican American civil rights organization founded in 1967 and based on the model of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.This Mexican American civil rights organization focused on legal issues and endeavored to win protections against discrimination through court decisions.
W) Founded in Texas in 1970 by Mexican Americans as an alternative to the two major political parties,the organization ran candidates for state governor and other local government positions in the 1970s.It was an expression of the Chicano/a movement and its attempts to create political unity among American citizens of Mexican descent.
X) Organization established in 1968 to address the problems Indians faced in American cities,including poverty and police harassment.The group organized Indians to end relocation and termination policies and to win greater control over their cultures and communities.

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How would you characterize the different forms that black power took? How were these forms related to traditions in African American history?

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For this question,refer to the following photograph of police in Birmingham,Alabama,using dogs against peaceful African American protesters in 1963. For this question,refer to the following photograph of police in Birmingham,Alabama,using dogs against peaceful African American protesters in 1963.   Which events of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century represent a continuation of the process depicted by this image? A)  Debates about identity and gender roles as matters of social justice B)  Intensified public debates over the size and scope of the social safety net C)  The increase in economic inequality as union membership declined and immigration increased D)  Reduced public faith in the government's ability to solve social and economic problems Which events of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century represent a continuation of the process depicted by this image?


A) Debates about identity and gender roles as matters of social justice
B) Intensified public debates over the size and scope of the social safety net
C) The increase in economic inequality as union membership declined and immigration increased
D) Reduced public faith in the government's ability to solve social and economic problems

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In Brown v.Board of Education,the Supreme Court ruled against segregated schools on the grounds that


A) they violated the principle of separation of powers.
B) segregation gave the United States an unfavorable image abroad.
C) they denied black children "equal protection of the laws."
D) segregated schools represented a misallocation of taxpayers' resources.

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Answer the following questions : -Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party


A) The conviction that individuals require government protection from discrimination.This version of liberalism was promoted by the civil rights and women's movements and focused on identities-such as race or gender-rather than the general social welfare of New Deal liberalism.
B) Civil rights organization founded in 1942 in Chicago by James Farmer and other members of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) that espoused nonviolent direct action.In 1961 this group organized a series of what were called Freedom Rides on interstate bus lines throughout the South to call attention to blatant violations of recent Supreme Court rulings against segregation in interstate commerce.
C) System of racial segregation in the South that lasted a century,from after the Civil War until the 1960s.
D) A prominent black trade union of railroad car porters working for the Pullman Company.
E) The 1947 report by the Presidential Committee on Civil Rights that called for robust federal action to ensure equality for African Americans.President Truman asked Congress to make all of the report's recommendations-including the abolition of poll taxes and the restoration of the Fair Employment Practice Committee-into law,leading to discord in the Democratic Party.
F) A breakaway party of white Democrats from the South,formed for the 1948 election.Its formation shed light on an internal struggle between the civil rights aims of the party's liberal wing and southern white Democrats.
G) A group founded by World War II veterans in Corpus Christi,Texas,in 1948 to protest the poor treatment of Mexican American soldiers and veterans.
H) A Latino civil rights group founded in Los Angeles in 1947,which trained many Latino politicians and community activists,including Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta.
I) Supreme Court ruling that overturned the "separate but equal" precedent established in Plessy v.Ferguson in 1896.The Court declared that separate educational facilities were inherently unequal and thus violated the Fourteenth Amendment.
J) Yearlong boycott of this city's segregated bus system in 1955-1956 by the city's African American population.The boycott brought Martin Luther King Jr.to national prominence and ended in victory when the Supreme Court declared segregated seating on public transportation unconstitutional.
K) After the Montgomery Bus Boycott,Martin Luther King Jr.and other civil rights leaders formed this organization in 1957 to coordinate civil rights activity in the South.
L) A student civil rights group founded in 1960 under the mentorship of activist Ella Baker.The group initially embraced an interracial and nonhierarchical structure that encouraged leadership at the grassroots level and practiced the civil disobedience principles of Martin Luther King Jr.As violence against civil rights activists escalated nationwide in the 1960s,the group expelled nonblack members and promoted "black power" and the teachings of Malcolm X.
M) On August 28,1963,a quarter of a million people marched to the Lincoln Memorial to demand that Congress end Jim Crow racial discrimination and launch a major jobs program to bring needed employment to black communities.
N) Law that responded to demands of the civil rights movement by making discrimination in employment,education,and public accommodations illegal.It was the strongest such measure since Reconstruction and included a ban on sex discrimination in employment.
O) Party founded in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964.Its members attempted to attend the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City,New Jersey,as the legitimate representatives of their state,but Democratic leaders refused to recognize the party.
P) Law passed during Lyndon Johnson's administration that empowered the federal government to intervene to ensure minorities' access to the voting booth.
Q) A major strain of African American thought that emphasized black racial pride and autonomy.Present in black communities for centuries,it periodically came to the fore,as in Marcus Garvey's pan-Africanist movement in the early twentieth century and in various organizations in the 1960s and 1970s,such as the Nation of Islam and the Black Panther Party.
R) A religion founded in the United States that became a leading source of black nationalist thought in the 1960s.Black Muslims preached an apocalyptic brand of this religion,anticipating the day when Allah would banish the white "devils" and give the black nation justice.
S) A militant organization dedicated to protecting African Americans from police violence,founded in Oakland,California,in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.In the late 1960s the organization spread to other cities,where members undertook a wide range of community-organizing projects,but the Panthers' radicalism and belief in armed self-defense resulted in violent clashes with police.
T) An organization that sought self-determination for Puerto Ricans in the United States and in the Caribbean.Though immediate victories for the group were few,their dedicated community organizing produced a generation of leaders and awakened community consciousness.
U) A union of farmworkers founded in 1962 by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta that sought to empower the mostly Mexican American migrant farmworkers who faced discrimination and exploitative conditions,especially in the Southwest.
V) A Mexican American civil rights organization founded in 1967 and based on the model of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.This Mexican American civil rights organization focused on legal issues and endeavored to win protections against discrimination through court decisions.
W) Founded in Texas in 1970 by Mexican Americans as an alternative to the two major political parties,the organization ran candidates for state governor and other local government positions in the 1970s.It was an expression of the Chicano/a movement and its attempts to create political unity among American citizens of Mexican descent.
X) Organization established in 1968 to address the problems Indians faced in American cities,including poverty and police harassment.The group organized Indians to end relocation and termination policies and to win greater control over their cultures and communities.

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Who became the first African American justice on the Supreme Court in the late 1960s?


A) James Farmer
B) Charles Hamilton Houston
C) Thurgood Marshall
D) William Hastie

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How do you explain the spillover of the black civil rights struggle into the Mexican American and Native American communities?

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