Unit 6 Test - Civil Rights in the US 1950's-1960's

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

Which court case in 1954 ended segregation in schools, and reversed Plessy v. Ferguson?

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Lee v. Lee

• Sweatt v. Painter

• Delgado v Bastrop ISD

Which of the following was used in the South to practice segregation?

• Equality

• Jim Crow laws

• Title IX

• No laws were needed

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibited ________.

• any barriers to voting such as literacy tests and poll taxes

• the government to conduct surveillance of polling sites

• voters from seeing early drafts of ballot cards

• poll workers from handing out reference materials to help voters read their ballots

What does NAACP stand for?

• National Association for the Advocacy of Colored Persons

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• National Association for the Abolishment of Crushed Peanuts

• National Association for the Application of the Color Purple

Atlanta born Civil Rights activist that believed in non-violent protests.; gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington.

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Cesar Chavez

• Thurgood Marshall

When African Americans refused to ride the public busses as a sign of protest; this began when Rosa Parks was jailed for refusing to give up her seat to a black man.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• March on Washington

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• 15th Amendment

Prohibits racial discrimination in voting (voting people, voting)

• 13th Amendment

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

Outlawed racial discrimination in the workplace and in public places, including schools.

• 13th Amendment

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1964

Enforced racial segregation in the South; all were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures after the Reconstruction period.

• 13th Amendment

• Jim Crow Laws

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Civil Rights Act of 1964