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What is the function of the NAACP?
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Its purpose was to work to end discrimination
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What does segregation mean?
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Separating people by the color of their skin.
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What kind of laws were passed after Reconstruction that were designed to keep separate race from one another?
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Jim Crow Laws
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What are civil rights?
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Civil rights are the rights of all people to be treated equally under the law.
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What does integrate mean?
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To integrate means to make something available to all people.
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What is a sit-in?
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A sit-in is a form of protest in which people refuse to leave a restaurant until they were served or arrested.
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What is a boycott?
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A boycott is when people refuse to do business with a group or company.
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What Cuban dictator offended many Cubans and caused them to want to leave their homeland?
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Fidel Castro
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How did most Cuban get to Florida in 1980?
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They fled to Florida in small boats.
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Where have many Florida newcomers come from?
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Cuba, Mexico, Haiti, Canada, Jamaica, Colombia, and Brazil
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What is a point of view?
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The way in which a person looks at something.
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How many years after the Tallahassee bus boycott was the Civil Rights Acts passed?
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8 years
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When did the first public school in Florida integrate its classes?
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1959
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When did Tallahassee college students attempt to end segregation in the city's "whites only" movie theatre?
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1963
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How many years passed between the adoption of the Civil Rights Act and the election of the first black legislator since Reconstruction?
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4 years
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List 6 events in the struggle for Civil Rights in order.
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1954 - US Supreme Court rules segregation of schools is illegal
1956 - Tallahassee bus boycot begins 1959 - Orchard Villa School becomes 1st public school in Fla to end segregation 1963 - Tallahassee students work to integrate movie theatre 1964 - Civil Rights Act becomes law 1968 - 1st African American since Reconstruction, Joe Lang Kershaw, serves in state legislature |
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What is the first all-black town in Florida and the home of Zora Neale Hurston
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Eatonville
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Why did few black Floridians vote in the early 1900's
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Many were afraid to try to register to vote. White hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan had beaten or killed blacks who tried to vote
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Who said "A voteless citizen is a voiceless citizen"?
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Harry T. Moore, president of Florida NAACP in the 1940's
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What leader of the NAACP wrote the song "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing"?
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James Weldon Johnson, leader of the NAACP in 1916
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The segregation of WHAT became illegal in 1954 in a ruling by the US Supreme Court
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schools
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How long did it take schools in Florida to obey the Supreme Court's 1954 ruling?
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5 years
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Tallahassee college students used WHAT to protest segregation of restaurants
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sit-ins
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Who was jailed in St.Augustine in 1964 for leading protests?
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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What document, signed in 1964, by United States President Lyndon Baines Johnson made segregation illegal in the entire country?
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Civil Rights Act
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What is a refugee?
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A person who leaves his or her home in search of safety elsewhere
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Why did Cubans start coming to Florida in 1959?
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Many did not agree with the Communist government
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Describe at least 2 separate methods used by African-Americans to attempt to gain their Civil Rights from the 1940s to the 1960s
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1940s - voters registration by NAACP, Harry T. Moore
1956-1957 - Tallahassee bus boycott, Rev. Chas Kenzi Steele 1960s - restaurant sit-ins by college students 1963 - student effort to integrate Tallahassee movie theatre |
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How did the rise of Fidel Castro to Cuban power in 1959 affect the lives of Floridians
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Castro headed a Communist government that many Cubans disliked. Because of this, thousands chose to flee the country and find refuge in Florida. As a result of Castro's rise to power, Florida has gained a thriving Cuban community.
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