Ch 29 America in the Age of Civil Rights

During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's, activities of the Congress of Racial Equality, the National Urban League, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) illustrated that

• all civil rights groups use the same tactics

• organized differences usually lead to failure

• violence is the best tool to achieve social change

• different paths can be used to achieve a common goal

Which U.S. Supreme Court decision struck down the ability of states to separate races in schools, railroad cars, movie theaters, and public beaches?

• Marbury v. Madison

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Korematsu v. United States

Which of the following helped women athletes obtain greater support in American high schools and universities?

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Voting Rights Act of 1964

Which constitutional principle was confirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in its ruling in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case?

• separation of powers

• equal protection of the law

• popular sovereignty

• separation of church and state

What was the major goal of the Women's Liberation Movement in the 1960's

• obtaining the right to vote for women

• guaranteeing women equal pay for equal work

• enabling women to stay at home as well as work

• laws that would allow women to own property

How did the methods advocated by the Black Panthers to achieve their goals differ from those of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?

• They formed a third political party.

• They were passionately anti-Communist.

• They restricted their actions to the use of passive resistance.

• They considered the use of violence to protect their own communities.

"There are just laws and there are unjust laws.  I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws.  One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws.  Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."

Based on this statement by Martin Luther King, Jr., which of the following would he think most Americans would be justified in disobeying?

• the Fourteenth Amendment

• the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson

• Affirmative Action programs

• Civil Rights Act

  of 1965

What was the main objective of the American Indian Movement's occupation of Alcatraz Island and Wounded Knee?

• to gain notice to their condition

• to gain the right

  to vote

• to protest the Vietnam War

• to expand reservation lands

The affirmative action programs passed in the 1960's were designed to

• return control of voting regulations to the states

• remove racial barriers in education and employment

• give African Americans the right to vote

• prevent women from achieving the right to vote

The statement below is from Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

"We conclude that in the field of public education, the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal"

What impact did this Supreme Court ruling have on American society?

• It permitted separate schools as long as they were equal to white schools

• It put an end to discriminatory state laws in the nation.

• It provided federal funds to educate minorities.

• It checked the powers of the executive branch to help African Americans.