Civil Rights Part A Quizizz

The Declaration of Independance stated "all men are created ____________"

• White

• Equal

• some better than others

Which group of Americas were not were denied equality for many years

• African Americans

• Anglo Americans

• Native Americans

• Women

Match the Amendments correctly

• 14th

• suffrage for African American men

• 13th

• abolished slavery

• 15th

• granted former slaves equal protection

Jim Crow laws were meant to

• segregate every aspect of Southern society

• laws that helped African Americans

• laws against racial violence

• laws to help African Americans

Keeping things or people separate 

• integration
• discrimination
• DISTRACTION!
• segregation

In 1896, this court case established the "separate but equal" doctrine for public facilities.

• Brown v. Board

• Texas v. Hernandez

• Sweatt v. Painter

• Plessy v. Ferguson

What was the purpose of Executive Order 9981?

• To call for rationing

• To mobilize troops in preparation for the Vietnam War

• Desegregating the military

• Initiate nuclear launch codes

African American attorney who was the NAACP's chief counsel.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• Orval Faubus

• de facto segregation

• Rosa Parks

Mendez v Westminster ordered ​ (a)   ​ of ​ (b)   schools in ​ (c)  

• desegregation
• Latino
• California
• integration
• African American
• Texas

What was the main issue in Sweatt v. Painter?

• A dispute over the quality of food in university cafeterias.

• A young African American man was refused admission to the University of Texas Law School.

• A disagreement over faculty salaries at the University of Texas.

• A debate over the location of the University of Texas Law School.