SS8H11a Checkpoint

Match the description to the correct term.

Brown v. Board of Education

• The controversial response of Georgia to the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Decision to change the state flag to include the stars and bars of the Confederate flag.

• A landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.

• A schoolgirl in 1954, She became the center of the landmark United States civil rights case. She was in third grade at the time, and sought to enroll at Sumner School in Topeka, Kansas. 

• A committee that was formed by the General Assembly to determine public attitudes toward desegregation after the Supreme Court ruling that segregation was unconstitutional.

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Linda Brown

• The controversial response of Georgia to the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Decision to change the state flag to include the stars and bars of the Confederate flag.

• A landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.

• A schoolgirl in 1954, She became the center of the landmark United States civil rights case. She was in third grade at the time, and sought to enroll at Sumner School in Topeka, Kansas. 

• A committee that was formed by the General Assembly to determine public attitudes toward desegregation after the Supreme Court ruling that segregation was unconstitutional.

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Sibley Commission

• The controversial response of Georgia to the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Decision to change the state flag to include the stars and bars of the Confederate flag.

• A landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.

• A schoolgirl in 1954, She became the center of the landmark United States civil rights case. She was in third grade at the time, and sought to enroll at Sumner School in Topeka, Kansas. 

• A committee that was formed by the General Assembly to determine public attitudes toward desegregation after the Supreme Court ruling that segregation was unconstitutional.

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Flag of 1956

• The controversial response of Georgia to the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Decision to change the state flag to include the stars and bars of the Confederate flag.

• A landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.

• A schoolgirl in 1954, She became the center of the landmark United States civil rights case. She was in third grade at the time, and sought to enroll at Sumner School in Topeka, Kansas. 

• A committee that was formed by the General Assembly to determine public attitudes toward desegregation after the Supreme Court ruling that segregation was unconstitutional.

Which best describes the Civil Rights Movement? 

• The Civil Rights Movement was a call for modernization and industrialization of society and attitudes.

• The Civil Rights Movement was a period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War.

• The Civil Rights Movement was an effort on the part of Blacks and their supporters to gain equal rights and end segregation.

• The Civil Rights Movement was an effort to colonize Georgia with the purpose of philanthropy, economics, and defense.

Schools started desegregating immediately in Georgia after the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

• True

• False

Why did it appear Georgia changed its flag in 1956?

• To rally support for integration of public schools

• To remember the battle fought for civil rights

• To express anger over the passing of the Civil Rights Act

• To show opposition to the federal mandate to integrate public schools