Why was the Civil Rights Movement successful in the fifties?
What will be an ideal response?
Supreme Court decisions denied the constitutionality of segregated public schools and pressured the federal government to intervene on behalf of African Americans. Martin Luther King Jr. emerged as a major leader, alongside a generation of college students. Electronic media transmitted shocking images that made it impossible to ignore the demands of civil rights activists.
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A. Silesia B. Austria C. Germany D. the Netherlands
Which two countries shared in dividing Poland under a secret 1939 "pact"?
A) Germany and the Soviet Union B) Germany and Austria C) Austria and the Soviet Union D) Austria and Czechoslovakia E) Germany and Czechoslovakia
The Scottsboro Trials exhibited prejudice towards
A) ?Mexican Americans. B) ?African Americans. C) ?Puerto Rican Americans. D) ?Communists. E) ?foreign-born women,
At the Bretton Woods conference, the United States demanded a global economy based upon the U.S. dollar and promised to convert dollars to gold at a fixed exchange rate of $35 per ounce.
a. true b. false