Bb5a31f81ClaimMedgar Evers served in Normandy during World War II before returning to Mississippi to organize voter registration effortsAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimFollowing the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, Medgar Evers drove an Oldsmobile 88 to transport witness Willie Reed safely out of MississippiAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimCivil rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated outside his Jackson, Mississippi, home on June 12, 1963AgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimMedgar Evers's assassin was acquitted by two all-white juries before being convicted by a Mississippi jury 31 years laterAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimElisa Simmons served as the president of the Arlington, Texas, branch of the NAACP beginning in 2017AgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimRobert Clark ran as the first Black candidate for the United States Congress from Mississippi since Reconstruction in 1982AgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimTelevision producer Shonda Rhimes purchased the barn where Emmett Till was murdered in MississippiAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimCoretta Scott King testified before the United States Congress in the 1970s regarding transitioning the United States economy away from wartime defense spending toward a peacetime economyAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimCivil rights activist Medgar Evers was assassinated in Mississippi by a member of the Ku Klux Klan in 1963AgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimScott Davis Colomb released a campaign advertisement filmed outside the Mississippi home of civil rights activist Medgar EversAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimPresident Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into lawAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimSherrilyn Ifill served as the president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational FundAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimAndrew Young served as a civil rights leader, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, and mayor of AtlantaAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimAndrew Young's first wife Jean Young and Andrew Young's daughter both died of cancerAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimThe United States Civil Rights Acts established that basic freedoms and legislative equality are specified at the national level of governmentAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimMartin Luther King Jr. delivered a sermon focusing on the parable of the Good Samaritan in Memphis, Tennessee, on the evening before his assassination in 1968AgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimMartin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968 to advocate for sanitation workers following the deaths of two sanitation workers caused by malfunctioning equipmentAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimPresident Lyndon B. Johnson spearheaded the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965AgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimBiographer Robert Caro interviewed former Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge regarding Lyndon B. Johnson's early civil rights viewsAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimThe Civil Rights Act of 1957 retained jury trial guarantees for Southern election officials, avoiding a Southern Democratic filibusterAgreeDisagree