Civil Rights

Brown vs. Board of Education was a famous case heard by the United States Supreme Court in 1954. The court ruled that it is illegal to:

• Allow children to work long hours in factories
• Segregate schools based on people’s skin color
• Pay black people less than white people for similar work
• Return an escaped slave to his/her master  

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Thurgood Marshall was an important part of the Civil Rights Movement because:

• He ended Reconstruction and pushed for the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.

• He was the NAACP lawyer during Brown vs. Board of Education case and became the first Black Supreme Court Justice

• He spoke during the march on Washington

• He was the lawyer for the SCLC during the Schenk v. U.S. case and he led the KKK.

The Amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote, ratified in 1920.

• 13th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• 19th Amendment
• 23rd Amendment

This Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.

• Delgado v. Bastrop

• Roe v. Wade

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Tinker v. Des Moines

This sign represents what laws in the South

• Racial Rules

• Lincoln Laws

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow

This law made it illegal to discriminate against people on the basis of race, national origin, or sex.

• Voting Rights Act

• 19th Amendment

• Civil Rights Act

• 24th Amendment

Every person born or naturalized in the US is a citizen.  Which amendment is this?

• 12th
• 22nd
• 15th
• 14th

Slavery is abolished.  Which amendment is this?

• 13th
• 15th
• 24th
• 19th

Disenfranchisement of African-American sufrage was ended by what?

• Continued protests by Freedom Riders

• Civil Rights Act 1964

• SCLC

• Voting Rights Act 1965

Which organization was responsible for organizing the freedom riders?

• SNCC

• SCLC

• NAACP

• Black Panthers