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The Civil Rights Movement Strengthens
Use your textbook to answer the following questions.
1. What validated de jure segregation in the United States in the first half of the 1900’s?
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2. How were African Americans in the north victims of de facto segregation?
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3. What event laid the foundation for the modern civil rights movement? Explain.
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4. How did Mohandas Gandhi influence the Congress Of Racial Equality?
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5. What was President Truman’s contribution to the Civil Rights Movement?
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6. In the case of Sweat v. Painter, what amendment was used to argue the case against the
ideas of Plessy v. Ferguson?
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7. What landmark Supreme Court case overturned the “Separate but Equal” ruling of the
Plessy v. Ferguson case?
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8. Who said, “in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no
place.”?
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9. What was decided in the case of Hernandez v. Texas?
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10. What was the goal of the “Southern Manifesto?”
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11. With regard to schools in Little Rock, Arkansas, what role did Orval Faubus play?
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12. Why did President Eisenhower use the Army in Little Rock, Arkansas?
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13. What were three provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1957?
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14. Identify the following:
1) Rosa Parks - ______
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2) Martin Luther King, Jr. - ______
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