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Who is Rosa Parks?
She led a boycott as she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.
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What is non-violence?
Martin Luther King Jr. encourages this amongst his followers at the start of the civil rights movement.
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What is segregation?
Each race is kept separate from each other
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Who is JFK?
The president embarrassed by the actions toward African Americans and was later shot and killed.
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What is the Klu Klux Klan
The terrorist group that hoped to deny African-Americans equal rights as citizens
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What is civil disobedience?
Sometimes it is necessary to disobey unjust laws and to work to have them changed. What statement most accurately reflects this idea?
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Who is Martin Luther King?
Civil rights leader that stated violence is pointless and to achieve equality blacks should not use violence. He stated that if a law was unjust blacks should be
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What is the 14th Amendment?
Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees due process and equal protection rights to all citizens?
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What is the Declaration of Independence?
What document states “All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights
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Who is Malcolm X?
Civil rights leader who wanted African Americans to establish separate communities, he did not believe that being peaceful had achieved anything and that black people should act in their own self-defense when violence was inflicted upon them.
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What is a sit-in?
College students used to protest against segregation in diners and at lunch counters.
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What is end segregation based on race?
It is the main goal of the civil rights movement.
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