Civil Rights STAAR terms MHS

required desegregation of schools, NAACP’s Thurgood Marshall helped argue case

• Brown v. board of education

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Dred Scott vs Sandford

• Korematsu v. United States

important leader of the Civil Rights movement, believed in civil disobedience instead of violence

• Malcolm X

• Martin Luther King, Jr

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. Dubois

Civil Rights group that use armed resistance to protect and defend themselves, Huey Newton was leader

• Brown Berets

• Black Panthers

• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

• Center for Constitutional Rights

Little Rock, Arkansas-Governor Orval Faubus challenged the power of the Federal government to desegregate schools

• True

• False

March on Washington-Nonviolent protest aimed to improve political rights and economic opportunities of minorities

• True

• False

required equal treatment of minorities in the workplace

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Social Security Act

• Homestead Act

• Sherman anti-trust Act

Equal Employment Opportunity-government agencies could no longer discriminate in their employment practices

• True

• False

ended poll taxes and literacy test as a requirement to vote, resulted in increased voting by minorities

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Social Security Act