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Black artistic talent in numerous forms and media flowered in what neighborhood of New York, eventually leading to a “renaissance” of African-American music and literature?

What document, passed by Congress near the end of the war in January 1865, ultimately freed the slaves and ended three centuries of slavery in North America?

Thousands of black families left the South in an “exodus” for what region beginning around 1880?

What governor of Alabama adopted a vocal support for segregation to gain national attention and prominence?

What was the purpose of secret societies like the Knights of the White Camelia, the White Brotherhood, and the Ku Klux Klan?

Match the piece of civil rights legislation in the list below with its description.

Where did most African-American soldiers, sailors, and Marines serve during World War II?

Between 1964 and 1967, waves of race riots broke out across the US in places like Harlem, Watts, Newark, Cleveland, and Detroit. What do all of these locations have in common?

Which president, an ambitious Southerner with a history of racism himself, signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law?

The savage beating of _______ by Los Angeles police after a high-speed chase led to four days of race riots in which 38 people were killed.