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Richard Nixon
________ was a leading Republican voice in favor of stronger civil rights law, while Senator John F. Kennedy, who was the Democratic nominee of the Civil Rights Congress, had played almost no role in the 1950's.
political equality
The ________ created by the civil rights movement encouraged efforts to modernize and reform the immigration policies of the country.
Jones Act
The ________ of 1917 made the island unincorporated in the U.S. and granted all Puerto Ricans U.S. citizenship.
NAACP
The ________ had been chipping on the legal basis of segregation since the late 1930's.
1962
At the end of ________, in Birmingham, Alabama, Martin Luther King decided with his SCLC allies to begin a new campaign against segregation.
southern manifestation
The ________ was signed in 1956 by 101 Congressmen from the former Confederated States and their countries were urged to refuse to disagree.
Civil rights lawyers
________ have launched a series of lawsuits in sectional institutions seeking full equality rather than a frontal assault on Plessy separate but equal rule.
1898
In ________, during the final phases of the Spanish- American war, the United States seized Puerto Rico.
eminent Baptist
He (Martin Luther King Jr) was born at Atlanta in 1929 and was raised as the son of a(n) ________ minister by a middle class.
Washington
The March in ________ was an extraordinary demonstration of interracial unity as a mark in the fight for civil rights.
Lyndon Johnson
In 1964, ________ won a landslide in the reelection, which accounted for 61 % of the public voting.
Note 
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