Fighting Segregation in Schools

The Supreme Court ruled that _______________________ facilities for black and white were constitutional.

• Separate but equal

• fair and split

• good and even

• together and equal

African American schools did not have ___________________-.

• basic supplies and equipment

• teachers

• had brand new textbooks and

5 cases of school segregation came before the supreme court was named ________________

• Brown vs Board of education

• Segregation and the Mississippi Delta

• The Citizens Council

• Willie George Washington Lee

Who had sued the Dept of Education on behalf of his 8 yr old daughter?

• Elvis Presley

• Willie George Washington Lee

• Oliver Brown

• Earl Warren

May 17, 1954 the supreme court ruled that ___________________-

• all schools could make their own rules regarding segregation

• Schools did not have to allow people of color to attend

• public schools in the nation had to admit all students regardless of race

• public schools did not have a place for people of a certain race

Southern leaders were willing and helpful in desegregating public schools in the south.

• true

• false

When nine black students tried to attend school in Little Rock, Arkansas they were met with

• the principal

• the governor

• National Guard troops

• open arms

Which pictures show how the Little Rock Nine were treated when they tried to attend school.

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When 12 black students in Clinton, Tennessee tried to attend high school it caused violence and _________________.

• fire

• riots

• a trend

• chaos