Civil Rights Movement Review

The first African American player in Major League Baseball was

• Ford Frick.

• Branch Rickey.

• Jackie Robinson.

• Cap Anson.

The overall purpose of the NAACP is to

• integrate professional sports.

• argue cases before the Supreme Court.

• fight for the civil rights of African Americans.

• establish a “separate but equal” society.

An NAACP member who became a Supreme Court justice was

• Thurgood Marshall.

• Heman Sweatt.

• A. Philip Randolph.

• Branch Rickey.

What strategy did the NAACP use to try to end segregation?

• asking for “separate but equal” facilities

• arguing legal cases in court

• asking African Americans to become lawyers

• establishing its own graduate school

Which became a new focus for the NAACP after 1950?

• creating equal facilities for segregated schools

• ending segregation in public education

• funding African American public schools

• strengthening segregation in public education

Brown v. Board of Education was argued before the Supreme Court by

• Thurgood Marshall.

• Linda Brown.

• Orval Faubus.

• Reverend Oliver Brown.

In his arguments in Brown v. Board of Education, the lawyer for Linda Brown claimed that “separate but equal” public schools were

• separate but not truly equal.

• neither equal nor separate.

• equal but not truly separate.

• both separate and equal.

Which best describes how the Supreme Court voted in Brown v. Board of Education?

• The court voted to hold a national debate on school segregation.

• The court voted to maintain school segregation.

• The court voted to leave school segregation up to individual states.

• The court voted to end school segregation.

Why did Thurgood Marshall cite the Fourteenth Amendment to argue that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional?

• he Fourteenth Amendment guarantees every child an education.

• The Fourteenth Amendment gives voters the right to reject Supreme Court decisions.

• The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees equal protection under the law.

• The Fourteenth Amendment formed the basis for Plessy v. Ferguson.

At the time of the Brown v. Board of Education decision,

• schools were segregated everywhere in the country.

• several states had laws requiring segregated schools.

• schools in nearly every state had been desegregated.

• segregation was common in the North, but not in the South.