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Grades 6, 7 and 8 - U.S. History - Middle School - Racial Unrest and Civil Rights in the USA
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There were many protests surrounding racial unrest and civil rights in the USA. By 1966, the emergence of the Black Power Movement enlarged the aims of the Civil Rights Movement to include racial dignity and freedom from oppression by white Americans. The Ku Klux Klan were synonymous with racial unrest and civil rights in the USA. The USA is known as the 'land of the free', yet black Americans had to campaign long and hard in history for equal civil rights. Segregation was the norm during racial unrest and civil rights in the USA. Many white Americans had difficulty with seeing black people... Show more
Grades 6, 7 and 8 - U.S. History - Middle School - Racial Unrest and Civil Rights in the USA
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1. In April 1963 race protests occurred where in Alabama?
2. The Watts area of which city saw major riots in 1965?
3. In 1963 over 250,000 civil rights protesters marched in which city?
4. What did the Government create to help former slaves?
5. Who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association?
6. Who became chairman of SNCC in 1966?
7. Who was a major Black Power figure?
8. Which former slave founded a college in Alabama?
9. What did Rosa Parks refuse to do?
10. What was Malcolm X's real name?
11. The Civil Rights Act was passed in which year?
12. At which Olympics did three American athletes make the Black Power salute?
13. What word means blacks and whites being kept apart?
14. After an attack, the KKK usually left what behind?
15. Which 19th century laws encouraged segregation?
16. Which black woman made the news in 1955?
17. What did the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution do for black people?
18. Blacks were often killed for an alleged offense. This was called .......
19. Which white racist is thought to have killed Martin Luther King?
20. Malcolm X was assassinated in which year?
21. Huey Newton and Bobby Seale formed which 1960's protest group?
22. Established in the 1940s, what was CORE?
23. What type of people set up the civil rights group SNCC?
24. Who founded CORE?
25. Which secret organization used violence against black people?

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