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American Trivia Questions with Answers About Eskimos, Uncle Sam, Strom Thurmond, Benjamin Franklin, Martin Luther King Jr., Will Rogers, and Neil Armstrong.American Trivia - With topics like Alaska's Eskimos, Uncle Sam, Strom Thurmond, Martin Luther King Jr., Will Rogers, Neil Armstrong, and Benjamin Franklin |
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William Rehnquist was chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
What judge was identified by 54 percent of those polled? Of the 32 civil rights cases Thurgood Marshall argued before the
U.S. Supreme Court as the lawyer for the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People, how many did he win?
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