CIVIL RIGHTS TEST REVIEW

SCOTUS Case that desegregated public schools

• Plessy vs ferguson

• Brown vs Board

• Miranda vs Arizona

• Sweatt vs Painter

First African American to serve on the Supreme Court

• W.E.B Dubois

• Booker T. Washington

• Malcolm X

• Thurgood Marshall

What was the importance of President Eisenhower sending troops to Little Rock to protect African American students

• led to a federal takeover of all schools

• strengthened control of education by state government

• military dictatorship declared in the USA

• showed the gov't would enforce court decisions on integration

Betty Friedan contributions included author, Now President and?

• worked to create programs for poor women

• campaigned for Women's suffrage

• demanded greater career opportunities for women

• introduced new patterns of poetry

the main goal of southern democrats in Congress was to

• end racial segregation

• maintain the way of life in the South

• litigate [use court] for equal rights for all races in the South

• integrate [bring together] the public schools in the South

Cesar Chavez, Hector Garcia and Betty Friedan were similar in that they all

• were supporters of Black Panther Party

• fought for civil rights and equal opportunity

• opposed non violent approach to obtaining civil rights

• their main goal was more opportunities for women

You have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law is part of what court case?

• Tinker vs Des Moines

• Plessy vs ferguson

• Sweatt vs Painter

• Miranda vs arizona

Even after the passage of the 13,14,15th Amendments African Americans continued to experience oppression due to

• Amendments only for white people

• many African Americans distrusted the gov't

• Jim Crow laws in the South

• poor communications about their legal rights

Equal pay, Title IX education amendment and the proposed but never passed Equal Rights Amendment [ERA] were efforts to improve the status of

• African Americans

• Migrant workers

• American Indians

• Women

What movement grew out of the philosophy of Malcolm X?

• Social Gospel movement

• Niagara movement

• Black Nationalism

• Women's Rights