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What were the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 aimed at achieving?
What were the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 aimed at achieving?
- Encouraging discrimination in housing, education, and employment
- Continuing segregation and discrimination
- Promoting inequality and injustice
- Ending segregation and discrimination (correct)
Which method did Martin Luther King Jr. believe in for achieving civil rights?
Which method did Martin Luther King Jr. believe in for achieving civil rights?
- Avoiding protests and disobedience
- Violent protest and disobedience
- Supporting segregation and discrimination
- Nonviolent protest and civil disobedience (correct)
What was the purpose of the March on Washington in 1963?
What was the purpose of the March on Washington in 1963?
- To celebrate the progress made in the 1960s
- To promote segregation and discrimination
- To demand unequal rights for African Americans
- To bring attention to the struggles facing African Americans (correct)
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Study Notes
- Civil rights were a major issue in the US in the 1960s.
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 aimed to end segregation and discrimination.
- African Americans faced many challenges in their quest for civil rights.
- Martin Luther King Jr. believed in nonviolent protest and civil disobedience.
- Malcolm X believed in fighting for rights by any means necessary.
- The March on Washington in 1963 brought together more than 200,000 people to demand equal rights for African Americans.
- Discrimination still existed in housing, education, and employment.
- The fight for civil rights continued into the 1970s and beyond.
- The civil rights movement brought attention to the struggles facing African Americans.
- The progress made in the 1960s was a crucial step forward for greater equality and justice.
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