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Who was the first Black woman to serve as a U.S. cabinet secretary?

Answer

Patricia Roberts Harris

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What was the name of the elementary school that Ruby Bridges integrated in New Orleans in 1960?

Answer

William Frantz Elementary School

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Which Black student became the first to attend the University of Alabama in 1956?

Answer

Autherine Lucy

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What was the full name of SNCC, the student-led civil-rights organization founded in 1960?

Answer

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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Which 1963 church bombing in Birmingham killed four Black girls and intensified national support for civil-rights legislation?

Answer

16th Street Baptist Church bombing

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Which 1968 U.S. law prohibited discrimination in housing sales and rentals?

Answer

Fair Housing Act

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Who became the first Black justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967?

Answer

Thurgood Marshall

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Which bridge did civil-rights marchers cross during the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery campaign?

Answer

Edmund Pettus Bridge

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Which 1960 protest movement began when four Black college students sat at a segregated Greensboro lunch counter?

Answer

Greensboro sit-ins

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Which 1957 governor resisted the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas?

Answer

Orval Faubus

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Which 1965 U.S. law prohibited voting discrimination based on race or color?

Answer

Voting Rights Act of 1965

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Who refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated Montgomery bus in 1955?

Answer

Rosa Parks

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