From King to Black Power — and the wider rights revolution
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What did Dr Martin Luther King Jr found in 1957?
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), a network of Black churches organising non-violent protest across the South.
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What happened at Selma, Alabama in March 1965?
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'Bloody Sunday' — peaceful voting-rights marchers were beaten by state troopers; the violence, shown on TV, helped push Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act months later.
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Name the three major pieces of US civil rights legislation, 1964-1968, and what each covered.
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Civil Rights Act (1964) — segregation and employment discrimination; Voting Rights Act (1965) — voter registration; Fair Housing Act (1968) — housing discrimination.
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What did Malcolm X argue, and how did this differ from King?
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He argued for self-defence 'by any means necessary' and Black self-determination through separate institutions, rejecting King's non-violent integrationism.
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Who founded the Black Panther Party, and when?
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Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, in Oakland, California, in 1966.
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What was COINTELPRO?
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An FBI programme of surveillance, infiltration and repression used against radical groups including the Black Panthers, intensified from 1967; it included the 1969 killing of Panther leader Fred Hampton.
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What book helped spark second-wave feminism, and who wrote it?
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The Feminine Mystique (1963), by Betty Friedan, who went on to co-found the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1966.
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What was Roe v Wade (1973)?
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A US Supreme Court ruling that legalised abortion nationwide, a major legal victory for the feminist movement.
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How did Cesar Chavez win better contracts for farm workers by 1970?
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He organised the Delano Grape Strike and a national consumer boycott of table grapes (1965-1970), pressuring growers into signing improved contracts.
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What did the Immigration and Nationality Act (1965) change?
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It scrapped the old quota system favouring European migrants, opening much larger legal migration from Latin America and Asia.
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Give two features of the 1960s-70s youth counter-culture.
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Opposition to the Vietnam War/draft, and new music and communal gatherings such as Woodstock (1969); also linked to New Left groups like Students for a Democratic Society.
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Why did radical Black activism rise sharply after 1965 even though major civil rights laws had just been passed?
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Because those laws ended legal segregation and protected voting rights but did not fix poverty, housing discrimination or police brutality in northern cities — the gap between legal and lived equality fuelled Black Power.
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Civil rights and social movements in the Americas post-1945
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