Modern Black Politics

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  1. 2. Barack Obama became the first African-American president when he ran against this senator
  2. 3. this virus caused a worldwide pandemic in 2020
  3. 5. this president would ultimately win the election against Nixon because of support from new African-American voters
  4. 6. this president had been vice-president to the first African-American president
  5. 8. in 2017, white supremacists marched in this Virginia city in response to Confederate statues being removed
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  1. 1. Jesse Jackson became one of the first African-American presidential nominees when he attempted to run against this president
  2. 2. the killing of this black teenager sparked the BLM movement
  3. 4. the booming housing market crashed in 2008 and became known as the Great ____________
  4. 7. 13 African-American members of Congress formed the Congressional Black Caucus under this president
  5. 9. this action was introduced under LBJ in the hopes of counteracting years of inequality in hiring and education