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BLACK HISTORY MONTH ANSWERS:
1. African Methodist Episcopal. 2. The Fourteenth Amendment. 3. Plessy v. Ferguson. 4. At a Woolworths in Greensboro. 5. More than 100 inner city riots in the summer of 1967.
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As blacks spent hundreds of years trying to integrate social and political institutions in the United States, many milestones were passed. Test your knowledge of some integration issues in this week's Black History Month quiz.BLACK HISTORY MONTH QUESTIONS1. What religious denomination was founded by blacks who objected to sitting in a separate gallery during church services?2. What constitutional amendment, ratified in 1868, guaranteed equal protection under the law for all people?3. What court case established the "separate but equal" doctrine in 1896, laying the groundwork for Jim Crow laws all over the South?4. Where was the first sit-in at a segregated lunch counter, staged by four black students in 1960?5. What events prompted the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (popularly, the Kerner Commission) to warn in 1968, "Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white -- separate and unequal"?COMPILED BY KRISTIN COLLINS
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