Civil Rights

The major goal of the 1960 Civil rights movement was to

• pass an equal rights amendment to the Constitution

• create a separate country for African Americans

• end segregation based on race

• permit more immigration to the US

Martin Luther King, Jr. urge his followers to use this method to achieve justice

• Passive Resistance

• Leaving the U.S.

• Shouting

• Violence

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed to correct-

• unfair immigration laws

• racial discrimination

• limits on freedom of speech

• segregation in the military

Passage of the Voting Right Act of 1965 was intended to-

• stop immigrants from voting

• allow states to decide who can vote

• remove racial barriers to voting

• give voting rights to American women

In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court ruled that-

• states may not secede from the Union

• racial segregation is constitutional

• all western states should be open to slavery

• slaves may be taken from their owners

In 1954, the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education-

• guaranteed equal voting right to African Americans

• banned racial segregation in hotels and restaurants

• upheld the "Separate but equal" principle

• banned segregation in public schools

The proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was an effort to improve the lives of-

• African Americans

• Native Americans

• Migrant workers

• Women

Lunch counter sit-ins and Freedom Rides are examples of-

• violent acts by the Klu Klux Klan

• nonviolent attempts to oppose segregation

• Programs to help the disabled

• Jim Crow Laws

Which doctrine was overturned by the Supreme Court in Brown v Board of Education?

• Equal protection under the law

• Due process of the law

• "Separate but equal" education

• Freedom of speech in schools

"We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place" This quotation is from the Supreme Court decision in-

• Korematsu v. United States

• Virginia v. Loving

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education