Civil Rights STAAR EOC

The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s led to the

• passage of suffrage amendments

• increased political participation of minority groups

• passage of the Reconstruction amendments.

• decreased political participation of minority groups

Who helped establish the NAACP?

• Booker T. Washington

• Martin Luther King Jr

• Ida B. Wells

• Jane Adams

After WWII in 1948, President Truman issued executive orders to

• send troops to Vietnam

• segregate public places

• allow women to vote

• desegregate the armed forces

Which of the following means to end a policy of racial segregation

• minorities

• desegregate

• discrimination

• integrate

Which supreme court case created a legal justification for segregation laws?

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

The NAACP said that black children lacked equal protection of the law granted to them by which amendment?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

Which lawyer took the Topeka, Kansas Board of Education to court because it had segregated schools?

• Thurgood Marshall

• Martin Luther King, Jr

• W.E.B Dubois

• Booker T. Washington

Which court case outlawed segregation in public schools?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Tinker v. Des Moines

How did W.E.B Dubois combat prejudice?

• He demanded passage of women's suffrage

• He established an early civil rights group

• He advocated making political compromises with segregationists

• He sought court orders to protect the rights of voters

What was the ruling of Brown v Board of Education and what ruling did it overturn?

• Women have a right to an abortion, Miranda v Arizona

• Minorities have to be on juries, Delago v Bastrop ISD

• Citizens have few rights when in school, Tinker v Des Moines

• Segregation in schools is unconstitutional, Plessy V Ferguson overturned