Civil Rights (part 1)

Which amendments did Congress pass during the Reconstruction era (1865-1877)?

• 11th, 12th, 13th

• 13th, 14th, 15th

• 14th, 15th, 18th

• 17th, 18th, 21st

What is the time period of race relations from 1877-1954 known as?

• the Jim Crow era

• the 'separate but unequal' era

• the Civil Rights era

• the Plessy v Ferguson era

The Supreme Court ruled in 1896 that ______________________ was constitutional and that Homer Plessy did not have his civil rights denied when he was removed from the 'whites only' train car.

• Brown v Board of Education

• 'separate but equal'

• integration

• de jure segregation

Which of the following are all ways that southern states denied rights to African Americans during the Jim Crow era?

• poll taxes, mob lynching, and Affirmative Action

• literacy tests, poll taxes, and Eisenhower's use of the 101st Airborne

• literacy tests, poll taxes, and the grandfather clause

• Jim Crow laws, literacy tests, and integrated public schools

What year did the Supreme Court rule in their landmark decision Brown v Board of Education, that 'separate but equal' was "inherently unequal" and unconstitutional.

• 1877

• 1963

• 1957

• 1954

The murder of ______________________, a 14-year old African American, in Money, Mississippi shocked the nation and opened the eyes to Americans of the racial violence and brutality.

• Medgar Evers

• Stokely Carmichael

• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

• Emmett Till

In 1955, Rosa Parks refused go give up her bus seat and the African American citizens of _____________________, Alabama began a boycott of the city's buses.

• Greenbough

• Montgomery

• Tuscaloosa

• Birmingham

The Montgomery Bus Boycott was led by a young Baptist minister named ________________________________.

• Medgar Evers

• Reverend Ralph Abernathy

• Dr. Martin Luther King

• Rosa Parks

___________________ was the uncle of Emmett Till and testified during the murder trial that the two white men accused of murder were the individuals who abducted Emmett Till from his home.

• Mose Wright

• Jim Crow

• Ralph Abernathy

• Sam Till

In 1957, _____________________ in Little Rock, Arkansas decided to racially integrate and __________ African American students eventually attended the high school.

• Central High School, 9

• North High School, 9

• Central High School, 15

• South High School, 81