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krzymel

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Question 1

Which of the following guided the Brown v. Board of Education case all the way to the Supreme Court?
 
  A) Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  B) White Citizens Council
  C) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
  D) NAACP

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Question 3

Compare and contrast Martin Luther Kings and Lyndon Johnsons contributions to the civil rights movement in the first half of the 1960s.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 4

What contributed to the collapse of the Jim Crow system from 1954 to 1965?
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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strudel15

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Answer 1

Answer: D

Answer 2

Answer: B

Answer 3

Answer: The ideal answer should include:
a. Both King and Johnson played vital roles in the civil rights movement.
b. As a civil rights leader, King led the grassroots movement and created the pressure for change.
c. King placed himself on the front line of attack and was jailed and beaten.
d. As president, Johnson made civil rights a priority for Washington.
e. Johnson was instrumental in driving political, legal, and official change from the top.
f. He garnered political support for civil rights legislation (Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965).

Answer 4

Answer: The ideal answer should include:
a. In Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the Supreme Court struck down the separate but equal policy in education and mandated the desegregation of school districts.
b. The Montgomery bus boycott in 19551956, triggered by Rosa Parkss arrest for refusing to move to the back of the bus, led to a Supreme Court ruling that declared Montgomerys segregated buses unconstitutional.
c. The sit-in became a form of protest that brought public attention to the injustices of the Jim Crow system.
d. Martin Luther Kings I Have a Dream speech in 1963 gave impetus to a civil rights bill in Congress.
e. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended the Jim Crow system of segregation.
f. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibited methods that had been used to prevent African Americans from voting.



krzymel

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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again




 

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