civil rights part1

In 1896, this court case established the "separate but equal" doctrine for public facilities.

• Brown v. Board

• Texas v. Hernandez

• Sweatt v. Painter

• Plessy v. Ferguson

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 

Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP used the legal system and court cases to challenge _________ African Americans. 

• discrimination against
• preferential treatment of
• integration of
• accusations of disloyalty against

In what ways were the Montgomery Improvement Association able to sustain the 380 day bus boycott?

Nonviolent protest, where protesters occupied space in order to protest segregation.

• Sit-In
• Freedom Rides
• Selma March
• Filibuster

To stop using or buying things

• Riot
• Disagreeing
• Boycott
• Capitalism 

disobeying certain laws in non-violent ways in order to make a point

• Civil Obedience 
• Civil Disobedience 
• Riots
• Angry protesting

What makes a sit in protest effective?

What were freedom rides?

• Freedom rides were free bus rides.
• Protestors rode interstate buses through the south to protest segregation

This president sent federal troops to Arkansas to integrate the schools in Little Rock

• Truman
• Eisenhower
• Roosevelt
• Kennedy