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| For what reason was it difficult to enforce Prohibition? |
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| There wasn't enough money to enforce the law. |
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| This group believed that the bible should be taken literally. |
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| They went "unerground" to these hidden night clubs to obtain liquor? |
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| He challenged a Tennese law that forba the teaching of evolution. |
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| Most like the Women's Chritian Temperance Union, organized crime and residents of the rural south would have approved of what law in 1920's? |
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| Anti-Saloon League; Prohibition Amendment. |
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| This event highlighted the strugle between science and religion in American school in the 1920's? |
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| According to the fundamentalists, urban slum, crime and child abue were cause by? |
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| This lawyer was hire by the ACLU to defend John T. Scopes. |
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| This term describes the era or time period of the 18th amendment. |
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| Someone who provided illegal alchol was known as? |
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| A famed politician and expert on the bible defended fundamentalism an tetified at the Scopes Monkey trial. |
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| Not enough money or manpower as provided by the government to enforce thi. |
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| This refers to stricter social and moral standards for woman than for men. |
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| She opened the firt birth control clinic in the United States in 1916. |
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| What were 3 technological innovations that simplified household labor and family life? |
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| Ready made clothes, sliced bread, and canned food. |
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| What were 3 professions available to women as a result of the new technology of the 1920's? |
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| Typits, Filing Clerks, and Secretaries. |
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| The writer who coine the phrase "the jazz age"? |
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| Thee famous writers of the 1920' expressed critical views of American culture and society? |
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| Edna St. Vincent Millay an Ernest Hemingway. |
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| Was th author of "The Sun also Rises", introduced a simplified style of writing and critized the glorification of war? |
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| The two boxers that took part in the event calle the "fight of the century". |
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| Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey. |
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| A small town pilot, who at one time delivery U.s. mail airplane, flew nonstop solo across the Atlantic. |
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| A composer that merge traditional elements of music with Jazz. |
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| This artist prouced intensely colored pictures that captured the grandeur of New York. |
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| First American o win the Noble Prize for literature used the character "Babbitt" to mock Americans for their materialism. |
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| Author of "This si of paradise" and the "great gatsby", h portrayed wealthy people of leading hopelessly empty livs. |
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| This celebration of African-American Culture in literature and art. |
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| The goal of this prganizaion was to fight for legislation to protect the rights of African-Americans? |
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| The mass movement of African-Amricans from the rural south to Northern cities during the 1920's was known as? |
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| Was a Jazz pianist and composer who was considered one of America's greatest composers? |
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| Eward Kenney 'Duke' Ellington. |
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| She portrayed lives of poor, unschooled Southern African Amercans? |
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| This singer became the highest paid black artist in the world. |
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| He founded a black nationalist association that advocated a "back to Africa movement" or separate society. |
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| He was the movements best known popet, describing the difficult lives of working class African-Americans? |
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| What event alowed the militarist leader to gain control of the Japanes government? |
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| His goal wa to transform the Soviet Union from a rural nation into a industrial power? |
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| In the returning of Germany, what did Hitler oppos an violate? |
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| He dismantled the Democratice Republic. |
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| Prior to the start of WWII, what happened too many democrasis created at the end of WWI? |
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| Democracis collapsed and Dictators were able to seize power. |
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| He was the fascist leader of Italy? |
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| His totalitarian regime was based on a communit philosophy? |
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| What policy did the leader of Britain and Franc follow when they submitte to Hitlr's demands? |
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| THe British leader ho signed the Munch agreement? |
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| What nations signed a non-aggresion pact? |
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| What British leader opposed the Munich agreement? |
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| What nation was invaded in 1939 that forced France and Britain to declare war on Germany? |
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| Germany's 2 month attempt to bomb Britain into submission is know as? |
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| What is the term given to Germany's military strategy of surpise and overwhelming force hen attacking countries? |
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| Became known as the "night of the Broken glass"? |
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Nov. 9-10th, 1938
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| These laws stripped the Jews of their citiznship, jobs, and property? |
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| The term use to define the deliberate extermination of a specific group of people? |
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| These were the segregated Jewish areas of cities here the Nazis forcibility relocated thousands of Jews. |
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| FDR referred to them as the "rattlesnakes of the Atlantic"? |
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German Submarines.
(U-Boats) |
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| This was FDR's policy of provid arms to foreign countries fighting Nazis aggression? |
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| This was drawn up by FDR and Churchill in a meeting an board the U.S.S. Augusta? |
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| The Japanese that ordered the Japanese navy to prepare an attack on the U.S.? |
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| This was created for th first during peacetine in the United States? |
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| Selectiv training and service Act. |
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| What country finally forced the United States to enter World War II? |
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| What three steps did the U.S. government take to combat wartime inflation? |
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| Woman who serve in the WAACs, serve as? |
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| Nurses, ambulance drivers, and electricians. |
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| This was created to deal with the problem of inflation? |
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| He organized the march on Washington to protest discrimination? |
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| Created by FDR to bring into and organize scientist for the war effort? |
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| This method was used to decrease the se of scarce wartime goods. |
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| This department was responsible for converting industry from peace time to war time production and distribution. |
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| Job opportunities for what minority in the U.S. improved during the war? |
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| Women and African American |
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| The use of convoys, sonar and radar helped the Allies win what battle? |
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| The Battle of the Atlantic. |
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| Who was the General that commanded Operation Overload, the Allied invasion of Europe. |
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| What was Germany's goal in the Battle of the Atlantic? |
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| To prevent food and war materials from reaching Great Britian and the Soviot Union. |
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| What 3 factors contributed to the Soviet victory at Stalingrad? |
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| The supreme Commander of Allied troops in Europe was? |
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| Who was the American General that led the Third Army into Paris to liberate the city? |
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| What was the significance of the Battle of the Bulge? |
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| What was the day, May 8th called when Germany surrendered to the Allies? |
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| V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day) |
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| Who were the defendents at the Nuremberg trials? |
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| Hitlers most trusted army officials, government ministers, military leaders, and powerful industrialists. |
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| What was the Manhattan project? |
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| On what two targets did the united states drop the Atomic bomb on? |
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| Who were the 3 Allied leaders attended the Yalta conference? |
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| Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. |
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| What was Truman's main goal in using the atomic bomb on Japan |
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| avoiding an invasion of Japan and to get them to wsurrenender. |
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| The commander of U.S. troops in 1941, in the Philippines? |
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| After Pearl Harbor, these west coast inhabitants were forcibly moved to interment camps by the government? |
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| This was to provide an increase in the standard of living, loans for college education, starting a business and buying a house for service men.? |
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| What was the U.S. Supreme Court case that ruled in favor of the government's internment of Jaanese-Americans? |
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| Koremtsu V. United States. |
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| This organization pushed the U.s. government to compensate Japanese Americans for their lost property? |
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| What influenced FDR in his decision to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps? |
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| He was the Democratic nominee from Massachusetts for President in 1960? |
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| What were two obstacles for Kennedy in the 1960 Presidential election? |
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| Many felt that he was too inexperienced and also worried about him being Roman Catholic. |
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| What post did JFK appoint his brother to? |
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| This military strategy was intended to modernize America's military to fight a non-nuclear war? |
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| This involved the invasion of Cuba in 1960? |
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| Openly communist, Cuba was lead by Revolutionary leader Fidel Castro who welcomed aid from the USSR. |
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| What was established in 1963 connecting Moscow to Washington D.C.? |
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| He was the Leader of the Soviet Union? |
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| This was a program of volunteer assistance for developing nations established by Kennedy? |
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| Who did the Warren committee conclude was responsible for the assassination of Kennedy? |
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| This was Kennedy's military strategy that would enable to the U.S. to fight limited wars around the world? |
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| What promises did the U.S. make that contributed to the end of the Cuban missile crisis? |
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-U.S. would not talerate nuclear weapons in Cuba.
-U.S. would respond to any attack from Cuba with an all out nuclear retaliation against the soviets. |
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| What was initiatives in Kennedy's New Frontier? |
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| Provide medical care for the aged, rebuild blighted Urban Areas, and aid education. |
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| How did Americans respond to the news that the soviets had put the first man in Space? |
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| They took it as a challenge |
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| A Supreme Court ruling that all suspects must be read their rights before questioning. |
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| This Act provide funds to help Public and Parochial schools to purchase textbooks and library materials. |
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| Elementary and Secondarfy Education. |
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| Supreme Cout ruling that required free legal counsel to those arrested, who could afford it. |
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| Gideon V. Wainwright 1963 |
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| The name of legislative program described President's Johnson vision for America? |
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| This court case established the principle of "one person, one vote". |
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| This ruling banned prayer in public schools. |
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| What Economic/Social groups were intended to benefit the most from the Great Society programs? |
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| What played a major role in Johnson's landslide wictory over Senator Goldwater in the 1964 election? |
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| What was a political result of Johnson's Great Society initatives? |
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| End poverty and recial injustice. |
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| What court ruling made racial segregation legal and allowed for the passing of Jim Crow laws? |
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| What type of pressure was exerted by the montgomery improvement association due to segregation on the buses? |
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| They didn't make enough money. |
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| What did Brown V. Board of Education find unconstitutional? |
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| Unconstitutional violation of the 14th amendment. |
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| To use mo0re young civil rights workers on a national level this was founded in 1960? |
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| Student Nonviolent Coordinating committee (SNCC) |
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| She was arrested in 1955, for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on the bus? |
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| This organization was founded in 1957, to carry out non-viol3ent compaigns against segregation and racism? |
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| Southen Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) |
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| What struck down the "Separate, but equal" doctrine? |
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| Brown V. Board of Education. |
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| These people tested the court decision making segregation on interstate bus routes and facilities illegal? |
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| He led the Freedom Summer project in Mississippi? |
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| The President that passed the Civil Rights Act of 1965? |
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| This Act eliminated Literacy test and allowed Federal examiners to enrolled previously denied voters? |
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| Voteing Rights Act of 1965. |
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| He was the first African American Student to attend the University of Mississippi? |
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| Where did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 make Segregation Illegal? |
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| It gave all citizens rights to enter libraries , parks, washroons, and other public accomedations. |
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| What is segregation that exists by the law? |
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| What is an example of de facto segregation? |
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| Segregation that exists by practice and custom. |
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| He was the former minister of the Nation of Islam was assassinated while giving a speech in Harlem? |
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| What type of segregation was addressed by the3 Civil Rights Act of 1964? |
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| What organization was referred to as Black Muslims and preached a doctrine of separatism and hate? |
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| This African American group preached a militant approach to Civil Rights? |
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| What is one legacy of the civil rights movement that has been challenged in recent years as being counter productive? |
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