Jim Crow Laws and Segregation in the United States Flashcard

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What did the Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) decree?

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The legislation of two separate societies — one black and one white — was permitted as long as the two were equal.

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What did Jim Crow laws establish in the United States?

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Complete segregation of black and white people

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Who became the first African American to play Major League Baseball?

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Jackie Robinson

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What did President Harry Truman order in the armed services?

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End of segregation

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Who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in suing public schools across the South?

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Thurgood Marshall

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What was the first major battleground in the fight against segregation?

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Schools

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What did the schools created by southern states through Jim Crow laws never achieve?

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Equality

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In what year did President Truman order the end of segregation in the armed services?

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1948

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Who sued public schools across the South, insisting that the 'separate but equal' clause had been violated?

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Thurgood Marshall

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What did the United States seek to demonstrate to the world after World War II?

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The merit of free democracies over communist dictatorships