U.S. HISTORY #21

What court case established separate but equal? 

• Brown v Board of Education

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Meredith v Mississippi

• Roe v Wade

Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice? 

• Warren 

• Marshall 

• Thompson 

• Faubus 

Segregation by law is called: 

• De Jure Segregation

• Jim Crow Segregation

• De Facto Segregation

• Communist Segregation

The court case that ended segregated schools was: 

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Meredith v Mississippi

• Brown v Board of Education

• Hirschey v Minnesota

People that boarded buses to see if the interstate buses were really desegregated were called: 

• SNLC

• Freedom Riders

• Freedom Summer 

• Soul Force Members

The governor of Mississippi that encouraged rioting to keep James Meredith out was: 

• Orval Faubus

• Ross Barnett

• Robert Kennedy

• Albert Fall 

What were the Little Rock Nine attempting to do? 

• Enter Central High School 

• Enter Ole Miss University

• Desegregate Buses

• Travel to Mecca

What happened in the Watts neighborhood? 

• I Have A Dream Speech 

• Violent protesting

• MLK Jr. was assassinated

• A church bomb killed four young girls

What U.S. President sent paratroopers to protect the Little Rock Nine? 

• Eisenhower

• Kennedy

• Truman 

• Nixon 

What took place from Selma to Montgomery after Jimmy Lee Jackson was killed? 

• 50 Mile March and chaos broke out

• A church bombing

• MLK Jr. was shot

• A bus boycott