The Civil Rights Movement

What did Jim Crow laws say?

• Jim Crowe laws said the black and whites must use different schools, restaurants, hotels, theaters, parks, sections of trains and buses.

• Jim Crowe laws said the black and whites could use the same

  schools, restaurants, hotels, theaters, parks, sections of trains and buses as everybody else

In the north, segregation happened by_____________ _______ ________________. Many African Americans moved to northern cities during the 1940s, and whites responded by moving to the suburbs. African Americans found them selves trapped in poor neighborhoods were housing schools were bad and the word there were a few jobs.

Thurgood Marshall fought hard for Civil rights. Choose two details that support this main idea.

• He enforced segregation.

• He was the NAACP’s top lawyer

• He argued thirty-two civil rights cases during his career and won 29 of them.

• He denied Black people an equality that they had a right to as Americans.

How did the “separate but equal” law affect the Browns? Choose two options

• She had to dress differently

• She couldn’t attend the public school near her house since it was whites-only.

• She had to walk through a dangerous railroad yard and then take a bus to the closest blacks-only school.

• She had to sit in the back of the classroom.

How did President Eisenhower show that the federal government would protect civil rights?

• He delayed the Supreme Court ruling and hoped to win support of the many white Arkansas board voters who still wanted segregated schools.

• He sent National Guard troops to Central high and ordered them to stop nine African-American students from entering the newly integrated school

• By placing the National Guard troops under federal control. The troops drove the little rock nine to school and protected them from the mob.

Who is Martin Luther king Junior?

• A lawyer who helped the poor.

• The leader of the NAACP’s leader.

• The leader of the Civil Rights Movement.

Did the civil rights movement succeed?

• Yes

• No

What is the name of the woman who didn’t want to move in the bus and inspired the bus boycott?

• Elizabeth Eckford

• Rosa Parks

• Linda Brown

What is the title of Martin Luther King junior‘s famous speech?

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