The city of Boston faced extensive amounts of angry protests in 1974 over a court decision that
A) forced police and fire fighters to join a city labor union.
B) outlawed protests related to the antiwar movement.
C) integrated the public school system after district lines had been redrawn to purposefully maintain segregation.
D) barred gay ministers from being members of the clergy.
Answer: C
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A. Race B. Level of education C. Marital status D. Religion
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A) resulted in a firestorm unexpected by its proponents. B) resulted in organized demonstrations against the law by members of the Whig Party. C) resulted in new personal liberty laws. D) repealed an 1842 Supreme Court law on the legal status of runaway slaves.
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a. Yuri Gagaran b. Leonid Brezhnev c. Alexander Solzhenitsyn d. Andrei Sakharov e. C and D