What was the significance of the pressure that senior civil rights leaders put on John Lewis of SNCC to moderate the language of his speech at the 1963 March on Washington?

What will be an ideal response?


It showed that a generational split was developing in the movement.

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What representative introduced an amendment to the constitution making it impossible for congress to pass a law abolishing slavery

a) Thomas Corwin b) John Calhoun c) Jefferson Davis d) Alexander Stephens

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Early in his political career, Ronald Reagan belonged to the:

A) Democratic Party. B) States Rights Party. C) Republican Party. D) Socialist Party.

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The Republican party platform in the post-Civil War period __________

a. included lower protective tariffs b. did not include civil rights legislation c. promised subsidies to railroads d. included decentralized government power e. ignored moral issues

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Between World War I and 1930, an estimated __________ black people departed the South

A) 2,000,000 B) 100,000 C) 5,000,000 D) 500,000

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