26.1 Beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement

What did the Jim Crow laws in the South do?

• allow black and white students to go to school together

• enforced segregation in public facilities

• blocked whites from high-paying jobs

• desegregated buses

Thurgood Marshall used his knowledge of the Constitution to reach his ultimate goal of

• segregation

• the 14th amendment

• integration

• "separate but equal"

In Brown vs. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled that

• segregation had no place on buses

• white students should be able to go to better schools

• schools be desegregated

• integration was unconstitutional

Who integrated the armed forces?

• Harry Truman

• Jackie Robinson

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King Jr.

African Americans boycotted buses in Montgomery because

• they were aiming to end the law on bus segregation

• not many of them rode the buses anyways

• to prove that they could get to work by other means

• to avenge Rosa Parks' death