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Changing attitudes to race in the USA
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1What was the Black Power Movement?
- AA movement in the 1960's that called for separate communities for black people ran by black people, e.g. a black mayor, black police force, black judges...
- BA protest by black Americans in the 1960's to gain power over white Americans...
- CA series of protests that led black people to power in the 1960's...
2The Civil Rights Movement was a movement in the USA for equal rights for black citizens.
- ATrue
- BFalse
3What does CORE stand for?
- ACentre Of Rights Education
- BCongress Of Racial Equality
4What methods did Martin Luther King use to try and gain racial equality?
- AMass non-violent civil disobedience methods such as protests, sit-ins and strikes
- BExtreme, violent methods like riots
- CPetitions
5What were the Jim Crow Laws?
- AThe laws comedians had to follow in order to refrain from offending anyone.
- BThe laws that allowed racism in comedic work
- CThe laws that governed segregation in southern states
6The Ku Klux Klan were a secret society of white Anglo-Saxon protestants who lynched black Americans.
- ATrue
- BFalse
7Why were the freedom rides carried out?
- ATo show that black Americans were free
- BTo test the rulings of the Supreme Court
- CTo try and get free bus passes for black Americans
8The Great Depression is the name for the period in which black Americans were treated unequally.
- ATrue
- BFalse
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- Revision questions on the treatment of black Americans between 1929 and 2000
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- Keera
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