Civil Rights Movement

Court case that ruled that segregated schools are inherently unequal, ending the separate but equal doctrine.

• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Sweatt v. Painter
• Delgado v. Bastrop ISD

This banned the use of literacy tests.

• Civil Rights Act
• Civil Rights Movement
• Voting Rights Act
• Jim Crow Law

Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal

• allow children to work.
• to pay black people less than white people.
• to return a slave.
• to segregate schools.

What is one way that Thurgood Marshall contributed to the Civil Rights movement?

• He won the court case Brown v. Board of Education which led to the desegregation of public schools.

• He introduced the Civil Rights Act of 1965 which increased equality in the American workplace.

• He pressured the Supreme Court to pass a voting rights bill that made poll taxes and literacy tests illegal.

• He overturned the court case Dred Scott v. Sandford which led to the end of slavery in the United States.

The policy of "separate but equal" was used to

• increase the number of political parties.

• justify the practice of legal racial segregation.

• prevent the passage of unfair laws.

• halt the creation of independent school districts.

Why were federal troops sent to Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957?

• to stop race riots

• to enforce voting laws to allow African Americans to vote

• to protect African American students who were attending an all-white high school

• to arrest black students who were sitting at a whites-only lunch counter

What event was organized after Rosa Parks was arrested?

• Birmingham bus boycott
• Atlanta bus boycott
• Memphis bus boycott
• Montgomery bus boycott

The Plessy v. Ferguson ruling of 1896 established that laws segregating African Americans were permitted in the so-called...

• "de facto segregation" doctrine.
• "Southern segregation" doctrine.
• "separate but equal" doctrine.
• "constitutional segregation" doctrine.

What did the president do for the Little Rock 9?

• He bought all of their textbooks.

• He drove them to school each day.

• He sent US soldiers to escort them to school each day.

• He bought them lunch at a lunch counter.

This type of segregation is created and maintained by laws.

• de facto
• de jure