Civil Rights Review

What landmark Supreme Court case brought an end to legal segregation in public schools?

• New Jersey vs. T.L.O.

• Miranda vs. Arizona

• Brown vs. Board

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

Which description best fits the "Little Rock Nine"?

• a group of soldiers who protested segregation in the U.S. military

• a group of African American high school students who enrolled in a white school

• a group of white students who dropped out of school to protest integration

• a group of college students who led the Montgomery bus boycott

What type of protest is shown in the picture below?

• March

• Boycott

• Rally

• Sit-in

What was the purpose of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

• to maintain segregation of public transportation in Alabama

• to end segregation of public transportation in Alabama

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

• a. He was the first African American to be appointed Supreme Court Justice

• b. He was the NAACP attorney during Brown vs. Board of Education case

• c. He spoke during the march on Washington

• d. Both A and B

 Martin Luther King Jr believed in

• Violent protests
• Really loud protests
• Non-violent protests
• Violence  when needed protests

This law banned all literacy tests that kept many African Americans from voting.

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Civil Rights Movement

• 24th Amendment

In the 1954 trial of Brown v Board of Education, the US Supreme Court ruled that

• private schools should be controlled by the federal government
• issues of racial segregation should be decided by the states.
• racially segregated public schools are unconstitutional
• the "separate but equal" doctrine should be contnued

Which best describes the significance of Rosa Parks?

• led the fight to ratify the 19th Amendment

• her refusal to give up a seat launched a bus boycott

• campaigned to stop the Equal Rights Amendment

• spearheaded the "Just Say No" campaign

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

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