The History of the USA between 1840 and 1975 is one of the topics covered in GCSE History. The last period looked at is the time from 1945 until 1975. This is the second of four quizzes on these years and it looks in particular at the struggle for civil rights in 1960s America.
During the 1960s, under the leadership of Martin Luther King and others, African Americans began their struggle for civil rights. They demanded an end to racial discrimination of all kinds in the USA. Much was achieved in the 1960s, despite differences within the coalition - and King's assassination in 1968.
Find out more about the African Americans' struggle for civil rights in the USA in this quiz.
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The award was a huge boost to King, who was in the middle of his campaigning, and to the Civil Rights Movement as a whole
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Malcolm X was more radical than King, and less likely to gain the support of liberal whites
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Many different groups were involved in the march, so the eventual title was a compromise
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In the "Freedom Summer" of 1964 many white students from the north came to the southern states to assist the Civil Rights Movement. These particular murders shocked the nation
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Clearly this alliance was an uneasy one. King differed fundamentally with the Nation of Islam on many points
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Bobby was known as a liberal, and a possible alternative president to his older brother. He encouraged the Civil Rights Movement, but he too was assassinated in 1968
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This measure was regarded as a major landmark in legislation, but there were several forms of discrimination which it did not cover
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The results of the Act were dramatic: black voters qualified in large numbers, and the first elected black officials appeared in both north and south
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Its advocates pressed for this method as the quickest way to even out inequalities; its opponents saw it as patronising to blacks. Nevertheless it was employed in certain types of employment in several parts of the country
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The Olympic rules were enforced strictly, but the two protestors wanted to highlight continuing racial discrimination in the US
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