Civil Rights

Bringing separate groups together

• integration
• Looking at this will slow you down
• discrimination
• segregation

After the Civil War, many states passed laws that affected the rights and freedoms of the freed slaves

• White Codes
• Black Codes
• Black Cones
• White Cones

People who protest to call attention to a cause, like civil rights

• prejudice
• activist
• optimist
• don't read this, this is just a distraction

Keeping things or people separate 

• integration
• discrimination
• DISTRACTION!
• segregation

Hotels, restaurants, shops, public restrooms and drinking fountains are all examples of

• public accommodation
• miscegenation

When one group is treated differently than another group

• segregation
• integration
• determination
• discrimination

All of the following were reasons for why the Montgomery Bus Boycott was an effective protest EXCEPT:

• Rosa Parks was arrested.
• The bus company lost lots of money.
• African Americans stopped riding the bus for over a year
• The Supreme Court ruled bus segregation unconstitutional 

The most significant legal change after the Supreme Court ruled on Brown v. the Board of Education was:

• Linda Brown was able to go to the University of Alabama.
• Membership in the KKK escalated violence in retaliation.
• Segregation on public transportation was outlawed.
• The end to legal public school segregation based on the principle of separate but equal schools 

After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, it was no longer legal to

• let African Americans ride the bus.
• deny someone of a job because of their race.
• fire someone for not doing their job.
• kick someone out of the military.

Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.

• Sweatt v. Painter
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Mendez v. Kirby ISD