Jim Crow Laws

Why couldn't many African Americans practice their right to vote in the South after the Civil War?

• There was nobody to enforce the 15th Amendment & angry white southerners blocked them from voting

• African Americans were not educated enough to be able to vote so they were disenfranchised.

Plessy vs. Ferguson said that...

• Segregation was unconstitutional

• Segregation of races is fine as long as facilities are separate but equal

• Plessy was 7/8 white and 1/8 black, so he was allowed to ride in the white section of the train

Why was their so much violence toward blacks, especially in the South, after the Civil War?

• Racist couldn't believe that people different from them could be equal, so they acted out in the lowest forms of hatred, prejudice and violence to make themselves feel in power.

• The other choice is the right answer...don't pick this one.

Compared to the "Jim Crow" South, the North during the same era was:

• More freeing for African Americans, but still segregated

• Completely free of racial discrimination

• Fully integrated

• More dangerous for African Americans, with less opportunity

Which famous figure founded the NAACP?

• Ids Wells

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Jim Crow

Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) was a Supreme Court case that:

• desegregated the military

• overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson & "separate but equal" and brought a legal end to segregation

• upheld the ruling of Plessy vs. Ferguson and continued segregation in America

Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." What did he mean?

• Only if everyone agrees can equal rights be protected by the law

• Eventually, 'Right' will always win out over 'wrong'

• Historically, most people have acted fairly

• The fight to end discrimination is a circular process