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Civil Rights Movement CFU Part I
By Kenneth Nelson, Jr
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What effect did A. Philip Randolph have on workplace discrimination?
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What was the effect of the 1896 ruling in Plessy v. Fergusson?
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How does the NAACP's approach to civil rights compare to other approaches?
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What significant struggle did Brown v. Board of Education cause?
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Why did African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, stop riding public transportation?
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What prompted the founding of the SCLC?
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What resulted from the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
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What was unique about the Civil Rights Act of 1957?
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What was the SCLC's response to the Civil Rights Act of 1957?
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B. He brought attention to discrimination by a successful march on Washington, DC.
D. He encouraged the NAACP to bring a civil suit against discrimination in the workplace.
C. He forced FDR to ban racial discrimination in government and defense industries.
A. He to a ban on workplace discrimination written into union contracts
A. African Americans could not be disenfranchised
D. Segregation was made legal.
B. Public schools had to be integrated where possible.
C. Jim Crow laws were declared unconstitutional
C. The NAACP encouraged direct action through nonviolent protest.
D. The NAACP emphasized hard work and patience to gain equality.
B. The NAACP preferred legal action through the courts
A. The NAACP urged equality through political action in the Congress
C. integration
D. economic equality
B. disenfranchisement
A. segregation
D. because significant number of African Americans had cars
C. because blacks had to ride a separate bus
A. as a protest against segregation
B. because the fares were too high
A. Churches became involved in civil rights
C. The NAACP did not want to be involved in direct, nonviolent protests.
B. The ACLU would no longer represent blacks in civil rights cases.
D. CORE was taken over by young radicals
A. Rosa Parks started the SCLC
B. Dr. King became a nationally recognized civil rights leader
C. Blacks were no longer disenfranchised in Alabama
D. The Supreme Court outlawed the poll tax.
A. It created a civil rights division of the Secretary of State's office.
B. It authorized the Justice Department to prosecute mortgage fraud cases.
C. It was the first civil rights legislation to pass since Reconstruction
D. It was responsible for the Voting Rights Commission
B. They vowed to vote the Senate majority leader Lyndon Johnson out of office.
C. They committed to vote Republican in the 1960 election.
D. They protested the weak language of the bill.
A. They pledged to register two million new black voters