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| After World War II, ______________provided veterans with money for an education and low cost home loans |
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| Farmers were able to get their produce to people in the cities by |
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| Mechanical cotton pickers and chemical poisons made ____________ more efficient after World War II |
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| People had more money to spend and were able to buy consumer goods such as refrigerators and washing machines that had been considered luxuries, this was during the ________________of the 1950’s |
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Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas |
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| The Supreme Court ruled that separate schools were not equal in the |
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| Rosa Parks was an African American seamstress whose actions started the |
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| Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the ____________________ for his leadership during the Civil rights Movement |
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| This act made it illegal to deny people access to public facilities based on race |
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| Protesters in Selma held demonstrations demanding the right to |
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| Many of the restrictions that had been place on black at the polls were erased when Congress passed the |
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| The boycott of buses in Montgomery ended when the ________________ ruled that segregation on public transportation was unconstitutional |
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| During the 1960’s the new civil rights laws helped __________________ gain equal pay for equal work |
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| Men and women who have served in the military |
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| To abstain from the use of a good or product |
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| Basic, nonpolitical rights and freedoms |
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| Elimination of special treatment or privilege based on race |
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| “most segregated city in America” before 1964 |
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| Site of voting rights demonstrations |
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| Laws and customs that separated the races in the south and kept blacks from having the same opportunities as whites |
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