32. Why were black Americans separated from white and how did things change?

Full Episode description

We see how great speeches and peaceful protest marchers can make big changes in the world, particularly in America in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Here are some questions based on today’s episode:

1. The US Declaration of Independence (1776) said “that all men are created …..” what?
2. What does “segregation” mean?
3. What did Rosa Parks do on 1 December, 1955?
4. What happened when Elizabeth Eckford and 8 other black students tried to go to Little Rock high school in 1957?
5. Dr Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech resulted in the passing of a 1964 law called the Civil Rights Act. That law made something illegal – what was it?
6. What was the 1965 law called that finally allowed black people to vote?

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