Civil Rights 2020

The Supreme Court case which made segregation in schools illegal

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

• Dred Scott vs. Sandford

• Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka

1896 Supreme Court case which decided that segregation was legal

• Plessy vs. Ferguson
• Dred Scott vs. Sandford
• Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka
• Civil Rights Act of 1964

made employment discrimination and segregation in public places illegal

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka

to separate or set apart from others

• desegregate

• integrate

• discriminate

• segregate

to treat one group unfairly

• discriminate
• segregate
• integrate
• desegregate

integrated bus rides through the South with blacks and whites sitting together

• sit-ins

• freedom rides

• boycotts

• March on Washington

a type of non-violent protest in which black students visited "whites only" lunch counters

• March on Washington

• sit-ins

• freedom rides

• boycotts

a type of non-violent protest which helped to ban segregation on public buses

• March on Washington

• sit-ins

• freedom rides

• boycott

Whose father sued the Board of Education for the right to send them to the local "whites only" school?

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• John Brown

• Linda Brown

The goal of the American Civil Rights Movement was:

• to guarantee the same rights for all people
• to get vocational education and wait for white people to accept other races
• to pass stronger segregation laws in all states
• to create better Civil War memorials