USA Depth Studies 1950s-1960s Crash Course
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2. Who was Malcolm X?
- a Baptist church pastor involved in the Civil Rights Movement
- the leader of the Black Panther Party
- MLK's brother-in-law
- creator of Black Power
3. The Civil Rights Movement is considered as starting in the 1950s because
- MLK became a prominent figure
- rigid segregation (Jim Crow) and post WWII organizing caused more solidarity movements
- Rosa Parks started the Montgomery Bus boycott
- segregation wasn't allowed in schools
4. The Black Power movement started because
- segregation prevented Black people from voting in elections
- Jim Crow was still active in Southern states
- Black people wanted to have enfranchisement and to end white oppression
- Black people wanted equal access to education
5. What were the Freedom Rides?
- buses which took Black people out of the South and to the North
- desegregated buses which would drive into the South under threat of violence
- protests to end Southern bus segregation
- desegregated buses which let Black people travel between state lines
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