Civil Rights, Ruby Bridges & Segregation

Ruby Bridges and 3 other girls were the first African American students to do what?

• Take a standardized test in New Orleans

• Integrate into an all white school

• Suffer segregation

• Enter kindergarten at John F Kennedy School

Which of the following best describes segregation?

• Students of all racial backgrounds attending the same school

• Baseball teams made up of white and African American players

• African American and white students sent to separate schools

• Everyone can use the same drinking fountains regardless of race

During the 1950s and 1960s, the civil rights movement was calling attention to the problem of what?

• integration and socio-economic differences

• social class inequalities

• differing political views

• segregation and the broader issue of racism

Racist laws and policies that treated African Americans as second-class citizens and separated African Americans and whites became known as what?

• Jim Crow Laws

• Plessy v Ferguson Laws

• Abraham Lincoln Laws

• Eisenhower Laws

The effect of segregation was to make it seem as though African Americans were what?

• superior

• upper class

• inferior

• unimportant

The case of Brown v Board of Education stated that separating students by race created educational facilities that were unequal and therefore violated what?

• The 5th Amendment

• The 8th Amendment

• The 13th Amendment

• The 14th Amendment

What affect did the ruling of the Brown v the Board of Education have?

• desegregating schools

• segregating schools

• de-classifying schools

• separating schools

Some state governments refused to enforce the federal ruling to desegregate. In Virginia, what did some schools do to avoid integrating?

• close

• appeal the ruling

• continued segregating and were forced to pay fines

Who was sent to blockade the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas when 9 African American students integrated?

• Federal Marshals

• The Little Rock police force

• The National Guard

• The Arkansas state militia

The civil rights movement was a mass protest movement across the United States that aimed to stop which of the following?

• segregation

• discrimination

• integration

• disenfranchisement