DC Civil Rights

The rest of you start and finish your Ch. 4 Poem of your book. Due Sunday

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Song and Dance (last groups)

Dance Routine .

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​Practice

Open Ended

Explain the purpose of Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.

Multiple Choice

What role did New Deal programs play for Black Americans during the Great Depression?

• Provided economic aid through work programs

• Increased segregation

• Limited job opportunities

• Promoted civil rights

Open Ended

What was the significance of the Mendez v. Westminster case?

Multiple Choice

What was the significance of the Supreme Court ruling in Sweatt v. Painter?

• It upheld segregation in schools

• It ruled that separate but equal was constitutional

• It declared that separate law schools for African Americans were inferior

• It allowed for the establishment of more segregated schools

Multiple Choice

What was the significance of the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education?

• It upheld segregation in schools

• It focused on the desegregation of public schools

• It was about voting rights

• It was a case about housing discrimination

Open Ended

How does the 14th Amendment help the fight for Civil Rights?

Multiple Choice

What was the Supreme Court's ruling regarding the integration of public schools?

• All schools must remain segregated

• All schools must integrate with all deliberate speed

• Integration is optional for schools

• Schools can choose to close instead of integrating

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of the Southern Manifesto signed by Southern members of Congress in 1956?

• To support school integration

• To maintain segregation

• To promote civil rights

• To oppose federal authority

Multiple Choice

What was already decided in Plessy under the 14th Amendment regarding public facilities?

• No rights were denied if public facilities were separate

• Public facilities must be integrated

• The Supreme Court has no authority

• All public facilities are equal

Multiple Choice

What is the main intention expressed in the Southern Manifesto regarding integration?

• To promote integration

• To resist forced integration

• To support the Supreme Court's decision

• To encourage civil rights

Open Ended

If the President did NOT openly support Brown decision, could this have encouraged opposition to it?

Multiple Choice

Discuss the long-term effects of Emmett Till's murder on the Civil Rights Movement.

• It had no significant impact.

• It galvanized the African American community and increased support for the Civil Rights Movement.

• It led to the immediate passage of civil rights legislation.

• It caused a decline in civil rights activism.

Multiple Choice

What was the result of Rosa Parks' challenge to segregation on public buses in Montgomery, Alabama?

• African-Americans staged sit-ins on the bus until the law changed

• African-Americans boycotted the bus company until the law changed

• African-Americans staged protest marches to the bus station every day until the law changed

• African-Americans protested at city meetings and church services held in the white community

Multiple Choice

All of the following were reasons for why the Montgomery Bus Boycott was an effective protest EXCEPT:

• Rosa Parks was arrested.

• The bus company lost lots of money.

• African Americans stopped riding the bus for over a year

• The Supreme Court ruled bus segregation unconstitutional