Civil Rights Review

The separation of a population based on race is known as what?

• Integration

• Separation

• Segregation

• Desegregation

What court case was held in 1896 that made segregation legal?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Pearson v. Clarendon County

• Briggs v. Elliott

What is the phrase commonly associated with the Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson?

• "Separate is best"

• "Segregation only"

• "Whites only"

• "Separate but Equal"

Which of the following were organizations that helped fund and organize the Civil Rights Movement?

• NAACP

• WASP

• NATO

• League of Nations

What Supreme Court case was held in South Carolina and involved a lack of funding for buses for African American students and a nine mile walk to school?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Briggs v. Elliott

• Pearson v. Clarendon County

What was the name of the lawyer who assisted in many Civil Rights court cases and eventually went on to become the first African American Supreme Court Justice?

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Modjeska Monteith Simkins

• Rosa Parks

What was the name of the Supreme Court case that made segregation in schools illegal?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Briggs v. Elliott

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Pearson v. Clarendon County

During the Civil Rights, massive protests were held in the South full of people who were against the changes of the Civil Rights Movement.

• True

• False

Rosa Parks was the first, and only, African American woman to protest on a public bus system.

• True

• False

What huge Civil Rights Movement protest did Rosa Parks begin?

• The Montgomery Bus Boycott

• March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

• The Selma March

• NAACP