Civil Rights Check #2

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Ruled segregation of Mexican-American children illegal in California unless a special state law requires it

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Mendez v. Westminster (1947)

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Supreme Court case in which justices agreed that a Negro must be admitted at the University of Texas School of Law

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Sweatt v. Painter

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This ruling explicitly outlawed racial segregation of public education facilities (legal establishment of separate government-run schools for blacks and whites), ruling so on the grounds that the doctrine of "separate but equal" public education could never truly provide black Americans with facilities of the same standards available to white Americans.

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Brown vs Board of Ed

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This ruling held that criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations. Indigent criminal defendants had a right to be provided counsel at trial.

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Escobedo v. Illinois, 1964 or Gideon v. Wainwright, 1863

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"States are prohibited from imposing any voting qualifications or prerequisite to voting or to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color" - Which of the following is being described in the document?
Options: Armed Forces Desegregation Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, G.I. Bill

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the Voting Rights Act of 1965

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"Extends voting rights and outlaws racial discrimination in schools and the workplace and by facilities that serve the general public" - Which of the following is being described in the document?
Options: Armed Forces Desegregation Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, G.I. Bill

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the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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The court case Brown v. Board of Education made segregation in schools unconstitutional. This forced schools to: integrate, repopulate, relocate, segregate

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integrate

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Why was Executive Order 9981 signed?

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Truman signed Executive Order 9981 to integrate the military due to racial tension and the need for more troops during the Korean War.

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Tests given to African Americans at the voting polls.

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