Segregation Primary Sources

Homer Plessy was arrested for attempting to ride on a ____________.

• Black Train Car

• Bus

• White Train Car

• plane

In the Plessy v Ferguson decision, the court ruled that the doctrine of ___________________________ was legal.

• the same but different facilities

• separate but equal facilities

• Unequal but separate

• all of the above

One form of illegal practice used in the South to discourage black voters from voting was a charge called ____________________.

• Sharecropping

• Voter ID Tax

• Poll Tax

• State Tax

Another form or illegal attempt to keep the black Americans from voting was called _______________________

• exit exam

• grandfather clause

• voting test

• literacy test

One of the requirements of the literacy tests was that you had to prove that you had a ________________________.

• drivers license

• citizenship

• 5th grade education

• high school diploma

Another rule for passing the literacy test was that a person taking the test must _____________________.

• get 90% or better

• 75% or better

• 80% or better

• a perfect score

Homer Plessy's action on the train car would be similar to who about 60 years later sparking a Civil Rights Movement on a bus?

• Martin Luther King Jr

• Malcolm X

• Susan B Anthony

• Rosa Parks

When a black voter attempted to pay Poll Taxes, the also had to pay for _______________________

• State Tax

• Federal Tax

• All the years previous where they did not vote and pay

• All of the above

Laws that were separating black and white people in the South were known as ________________________ laws.

• Civil Disobedience

• Mandate

• Jim Crow

• black code

True or False: The tax dollars spent on white facilites and black facilities were equal in the late 1800s - 1920s.

• True

• False