SW Week 26 Quiz

1. What Supreme Court case made segregation illegal in 1954?

• a. Briggs v. Elliot
• b. Plessy v. Ferguson
• c. Dred Scott v. Sanderson
• d. Brown v. Board of Education

2. Why was Rosa Parks arrested?

• a. for sitting in the wrong seat
• b. for using the wrong entrance
• c. for not being registered to vote
• d. for refusing the orders of the bus driver

3. What is a voluntary refusal to buy goods or use services in protest?

• a. boycott
• b. shunning
• c. shut-down
• d. strike

4. How could African American children attend a white-only school?

• a. by paying a special tax
• b. by buying their own books
• c. by hiring their own teacher
• d. by passing an entrance test

5. Which sit-in was used as a model for sit-ins across the nation?

• A. Rosa Parks in Montgomery
• B. Woolworth’s in Greensboro
• C. Royal Ice Cream in Wichita
• D. Jack Spratt diner in Chicago

6. The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was constitutional if facilities had the same features. What is this doctrine called?

• a. civil rights policy
• b. 14th Amendment
• c. separate but equal
• d. fair housing doctrine

7. Fill in the blank: The__________ branch enforced desegregation in schools.

• judicial
• legislative
• Executive
• Military

8. True or false: Rosa Parks integrated a New Orleans white-only school.

• True
• False

9. Which law made segregation illegal in public places?

• a) The Civil Rights Act of 1964
• b) The Emancipation Proclamation
• c) The Declaration of Independence
• d) The Bill of Rights

10. Who was an important leader of the Civil Rights Movement who gave the "I Have a Dream" speech?

• a) Abraham Lincoln
• b) Rosa Parks
• c) Martin Luther King Jr.
• d) Harriet Tubman