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?

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

Match the people listed below with their descriptions.

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

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?

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?

The new constitutions of readmitted Southern states allowed for passage of what onerous, restrictive laws targeting former slaves?

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned all of the following except:

During the war, the immigration of African-Americans to northern industrial cities for work in war-related factory jobs occasionally provoked _______, the worst being in Detroit during the summer of 1943, with 25 blacks and nine whites killed.