Civil Rights

The Supreme Court justices in the case of Brown v. Board of Education (1954) ruled that _________________________________.

• children must attend schools until the age of 16

• women had equal rights as men

• segregation should continue as it was

• segregation was unconstitutional

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 _______________________________.

• made segregation unconstitutional

• prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin in public places including in employment

• provides veterans with economic assistance for college

• eliminated poll taxes and literacy tests in voting

Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.

• Sweatt v. Painter

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Mendez v. Kirby ISD

Which legislation did away with poll taxes and literacy tests intended to prevent African Americans from exercising their Fifteenth Amendment rights?

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Brown v. Board of Education 1954

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• You didn't even go over this sir.

The federal law outlawing literacy tests, poll taxes, and other requirements that made it difficult for southern blacks to exercise their right for suffrage    

• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Voting Rights Act of 1965

Who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus?

• Charlayne Hunter

• Harriet Tubman

• Rosa Parks

• Rebecca L. Felton

_______________ wrote "I Have a Dream" speech and delivered it at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

• Harry Belafonte

• Barack Obama

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Jesse Jackson

Plessy v. Ferguson decision kept this system of keeping Whites and colored people apart

• prejudice

• union

• confederate

• segregation

A form of nonviolent protest African Americans used to protest segregation in buses

• march

• boycott

• sit in

• activist

Which U.S. Supreme Court case is the subject of the excerpt above?

• Sweatt v. Painter
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Hernandez v. Texas
• Brown v. Board of Education