Chapter 9: Civil Rights

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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After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, it was no longer legal to

• let African Americans ride the bus.
• deny someone of a job because of their race.
• fire someone for not doing their job.
• kick someone out of the military.

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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Nonviolent protest, where protesters occupied space in order to protest segregation.

• Sit-In
• Freedom Rides
• Selma March
• Filibuster

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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

Court case declared that separate black and white public schools to be unconstitutional.

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

Companies discriminated African Americans so the federal government answered by passing the-

• Title IX

• Civil Rights Act of 1957

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• 24th Amendment

AN employee wrongly terminated from her job because of her race or gender should contact which government institution or office for help?

• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

• Local Polic

• Federal Bureau of Investigation

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

What action was taken several years after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling to more fully integrate schools?

• States spent more to make all-black schools equal to all-white schools

• Congress amended the Constitution to require racial balance in public schools.

• Interest groups convinced Congress to fund traditionally all-black schools at a level equal to mostly-white schools

• Federal courts mandated enrollment ratios that required busing students to distant schools.