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While the US military would not be officially integrated until after the war, some units began integrating black and white troops during the war.

The United States entered World War II after what event?

Which of the following is not true regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Which president during the 1960s declared “war on poverty” in the belief that fixing poverty would solve problems involving race, drugs, and crime?

What black activist, angered by his 27th arrest during a protest, coined the term “Black Power” during a speech at Greenwood, Mississippi in 1966?

Match the people listed below with their descriptions.

What defunct white supremacist group was reborn in 1915 and rapidly grew into a nationwide nativist organization opposed to blacks, Jews, Catholics, and immigrants?

What segregated accommodation did white and black activists from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) first target for nonviolent civil disobedience? 

Operation Ajax was carried out at the request of the British intelligence service and was one of the CIA’s first foreign interventions with what purpose?

While most African-Americans in the US military served in menial duties like cooking, driving trucks, and building roads, black soldiers trained at the Tuskegee Institute for what specific, hazardous combat role and became famous for their excellence?