USA CITIZENSHIP TEST
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The Cold War
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The civil rights movement
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The civil war
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909. It fought to end race discrimination through litigation, education, and lobbying efforts.
Detailed explanation-2: -Most U.S. history textbooks teach a narrative that the Civil Rights Movement began with the Supreme Court Brown v. Board decision in 1954 and abruptly ended in 1965 with the passage of federal legislation.
Detailed explanation-3: -And the civil rights movement pioneered many of the organizational forms and political strategies that are important to the gay movement, women’s movement, the Latino movement, and many others.
Detailed explanation-4: -The first major event of the modern civil rights movement was the 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Board of Education, which overturned desegregated schools across the nation. Schools, especially in the South, were slow to comply, and often attempts to register black students broke out in violence.