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The legendary civil rights activist and leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize in what year?
1961
1962
1964
1967
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What African nation was founded in 1821 by freed slaves and African-Americans fleeing prejudice by returning to their ancestral land?
Lybia
Liberia
Republic of Congo
Ivory Coast
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The N.A.A.C.P. was an organization that made much progress in combating the legal discrimination that plagued African-Americans. What does N.A.A.C.P. stand for?
Nominal Associates Assisting the Craft of Peace
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Naturalized Americans Advancing Congressional Properties
National African-American Cabal for Petitioning and etc.
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Which of the following terms means "segregation that is permitted by law"?
Morris segregation
Closed-Circuit segregation
Johnsontown segregation
De jure segregation
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Which of the following labor organizations made history by accepting not only African-Americans, but also women among its members during the 19th Century?
The Knights of Labor
The American Federation of Labor
The American Craftsmen's Guild
The Workman's Hammer
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Which of the following Supreme Court cases upheld the legal status of segregation in 1896 under the doctrine of "separate but equal"?
Loving V. Virginia
Plessy V. Ferguson
Brown V. Board of Education
Dred Scott V. Sandford
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Which of the following civil rights activists had the distinction of being the first African-American to earn a PhD from Harvard?
Fredrick Douglass
Booker T. Washington
Martin Luther King Jr.
W. E. B. DuBois
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A series of critical civil rights marches in 1965 that ended in Montgomery, Alabama originated in what Alabama town which is now considered a landmark for the Civil Rights Movement?
Red Bend
Selma
Dover Creek
Ashton
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Which constitutional amendment forbade slavery in the United States?
The 13th
The 14th
The 15th
The 16th
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Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat on a bus in what city in the South?
Glensdale, Alabama
Jackson, Mississippi
Savannah, Georgia
Montgomery, Alabama
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Malcolm X was assassinated by members of what organization that he was a member of previously?
The Black Panthers
The N.A.A.C.P.
The Nation of Islam
The New Dawn
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What Governor of Arkansas called in the National Guard in an effort to keep a Little Rock school segregated in 1957?
Scott Dunbar
Mitch Millhauser
Orval Faubus
Lew Jenson
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What is the name of the young African-American girl who became famous for being the first non-white child to attend William Frantz Elementary School despite numerous threats from the people of her community?
Ruby Bridges
Kelly Stanton
Leah Motts
Angela Core
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What is the name of the Supreme Court case in 1967 that made laws prohibiting interracial marriage invalid?
Alburst V. California
Plessey V. Ferguson
Dred Scott V. Sandford
Loving V. Virginia
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What man was the thirty-sixth President of the United States and signed multiple Civil Rights Acts into law during the nineteen-sixties?
Jimmy Carter
Lyndon B. Johnson
Dwight Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
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Segregation laws are informally named after what actor who was infamous for performing in black face?
Jim Crow
Chester Reiss
Richard Nordin
Allen Stone
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The Tuskegee Institute was a college that aided the higher education of African-Americans and was founded by what intellectual?
Malcolm X
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech on what date?
August 28th
November 14th
July 4th
September 21st
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The civil rights activist group known as the C.O.R.E. has a name that is an acronym that stands for what?
Congress Of Racial Equality
Culmination Of Racial Emergence
Constitutional Office for Raising Equality
Commerce and Operational Rights Extension
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What African-American and women's rights activist worked toward equality for all that culminated in her speech known as "Ain't I a Woman?"?
Claire Rohasen
Sojourner Truth
Mary Callighen
Sheda Turnbul
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What is the name of the civil rights activist who gained notoriety when he led his militia of N.A.A.C.P. members in October of 1957 against members of the K.K.K. who were terrorizing them?
Thomas Bradbury
Gershwin O'Leary
Robert F. Williams
Malcolm X
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The nonviolent approach to protest that was implemented and encouraged by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was inspired by the efforts of which of the following other revolutionaries?
Francis Dunlap
Alexander Pope
Baron de Montesquieu
Mahatma Grandhi
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What civil rights leader and intellectual was responsible for the creation of the N.A.A.C.P.?
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Robert F. Williams
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In 1965, the American Football League called for a boycott of what city because of how poorly it was treating its African-American members?
New Orleans
Montgomery
Charlottesville
Baton Rouge
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Which of the Civil Rights Acts made it illegal to threaten or intimidate someone based on race and also prohibited discrimination in the real estate market?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1865
The Civil Rights Act of 1966
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
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What man was the first African-American to be elected to the United States Congress?
Samuel Fitzpatrick
Francis Colbert
Augustus O'Neil
Hiram Revels
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Which of the following African-American women was remembered for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955, a number of months before Rosa Parks did?
Gracia Rochester
Claudette Colvin
Sylvia Duessel
Mira Auburn
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How many total times was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. arrested in his life?
19
24
30
37
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The brutal organization known as the K.K.K. tried for decades to limit civil rights through intimidation and violence. What did K.K.K. stand for?
Kill Kill Kill
Ku Klux Klan
Kan Kly Kost
Karry Kancel Kollide
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What is the name of the man who was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice in the United States?
Thurgood Marshall
Louis Walker
Marcus Winemiller
Fred Savanno
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The landmark Supreme Court case known commonly as Brown V. Board was waged against the board of education of what city?
Topeka
Sacramento
Tallahassee
Jacksonville
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Frederick Douglass was highly influential for his work as an abolitionist and civil rights activist after he escaped from slavery in what state?
South Carolina
Virginia
Maryland
Georgia
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Andrew Nicholas is a passionate reader and writer on the subjects of history and mankind. He is a published author, critic, and poet who grew up in the friendly scenery of rural Ohio. He is a graduate of Wright State University and a regular student of historical curiosities.