Judicial Branch/Civil Rights Vocab

Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal

• allow children to work.
• to pay black people less than white people.
• to return a slave.
• to segregate schools.

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

• Sweatt v. Painter
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Mendez v. Kirby ISD

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What are Jim Crow Laws?

• Laws that placed freedom limitations on nonwhite people
• Laws that made all people work together towards a common goal

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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

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People who protest to call attention to a cause, like civil rights

• activist
• actor
• reporter
• scholar

What event was organized after Rosa Parks was arrested?

• Birmingham bus boycott
• Atlanta bus boycott
• Memphis bus boycott
• Montgomery bus boycott

What march was organized by MLK and advocated for equal voting rights?

• Selma
• Montgomery
• Memphis
• Birmingham

The Selma March is also known as ____. 

• Bloody Sunday
• Black Sunday
• Bloody Tuesday
• Black Tuesday

These black teenagers were the first to integrate into Little Rock Central High

• Elite Eight
• Little Rock Nine
• Arkansas Seven
• Final Four

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