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Black History Bowl Questions 136-144
Question | Answer |
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Name the local and state laws that enforced segregation in public schools, public places and facilities. | Jim Crow Laws |
What landmark act outlawed voting practices that were discriminatory against Black Voters? | Voting Rights Acts of 1965 |
What U.S. constitutional amendment in 1865 abolished slavery in the United States? | 13th Amendment |
What do many historians call the period immediately following the Civil War? a. Harlem Renaissance b. Middle Passage c. Reconstruction Era | Reconstruction Era |
What U.S. constitutional amendment in 1964 abolished the poll tax that was levied to deter Black voters from voting? | 24th Amendment |
What 1870 U.S. constitutional amendment stated that citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race or color? | 15th Amendment |
What amendment to the Constitution, when ratified in 1868, gave citizenship to anyone born in the U.S. and equal protection under the law, which included former slaves? | 14th Amendment |
Noted African American intellectual and civil rights activist W.E.B. DuBois was a founding member of which organization in 1909? | NAACP |
What in 1955-56 propelled Martin Luther King, Jr. to national prominence as a leader of the Civil Rights Movement? | Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott |