Civil Rights

During Reconstruction the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were passed in order to -

• Ensure government workers were not abusing the power given to them by the American people

• Provide equal treatment to African Americans and other minorities

• Provide freedom of religion, speech, and press to citizens

• Help the economy of the United States recover from the destruction of the Civil War

Segregation was used throughout America as a way to -

• Allow African Americans to slowly become a part of white neighborhoods

• Inform citizens of racial injustices done to African Americans

• Keep African Americans as laborers on farms

• Treat African Americans like second class citizens

In the court case Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled -

• That schools would be desegregated

• It was constitutional to segregate facilities as long as they were equal facilities

• The 14th Amendment allows African Americans to serve on juries

• African American women were now granted suffrage

In the court case Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled -

• The 14th Amendment allows African Americans to serve on juries

• It was constitutional to segregate facilities as long as they were equal facilities

• That schools would be desegregated

• African American women were now granted suffrage

During the Civil Rights Era, Rosa Parks is most remembered for -

• Going on a hunger strike until Congress passed civil rights legislation

• Organizing the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

• Being arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man

• Co-Founding the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Inspired by Rosa Park, Dr. Martin Luther King -

• Organized mass demonstrations on college campuses to set fire to the academic buildings

• Used peaceful protest to bring awareness to the Civil Rights Movement

• Refused to have meetings with political leaders or elected leaders

• Used violence to ensure the government would listen to his message

Contrary to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Black Panthers were a group -

• Of political leaders that made Civil Rights their primary political platform

• That worked to silence the Civil Rights Movement by threatening the use of violence

• Of students that worked to desegregate universities throughout the country

• That were willing to fight back and use violence to further the Civil Rights Movement

The primary leader of the Black Panthers was -

• Rosa Parks

• Dr. Lefron Jeffries

• Huey Newton Dr.

• Martin Luther King Jr.

In 1957, there was controversy at Little Rock High School over-

• Letting their football team to plan against an all African American school

• Desegregating the school

• Allowing evolution to be taught in science classes

• The hiring of the first African American principal in the state’s history

The infamous governor of Arkansas that stood in front of the high school and refused to let the African American students in was name -

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Lester Maddox

• George Wallace

• Oral Faubus