Civil Rights

Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal

• allow children to work.
• to pay black people less than white people.
• to return a slave.
• to segregate schools.

After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, it was no longer legal to

• let African Americans ride the bus.
• deny someone of a job because of their race.
• fire someone for not doing their job.
• kick someone out of the military.

Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.

• Sweatt v. Painter
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Mendez v. Kirby ISD

What are Jim Crow Laws?

• Laws that placed freedom limitations on nonwhite people
• Laws that made all people work together towards a common goal

The federal law outlawing literacy tests, poll taxes, and other requirements that made it difficult for southern blacks to exercise their right for suffrage    

• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Voting Rights Act of 1965

A form of nonviolent protest where people stop buying a product?

• march
• boycott
• sit in
• activist

All of the following were reasons for why the Montgomery Bus Boycott was an effective protest EXCEPT:

• Rosa Parks was arrested.
• The bus company lost lots of money.
• African Americans stopped riding the bus for over a year
• The Supreme Court ruled bus segregation unconstitutional 

The most significant legal change after the Supreme Court ruled on Brown v. the Board of Education was:

• Linda Brown was able to go to the University of Alabama.
• Membership in the KKK escalated violence in retaliation.
• Segregation on public transportation was outlawed.
• The end to legal public school segregation based on the principle of separate but equal schools 

The 14th Amendment to the US Constitution states

• all citizens have the right to vote
• gives the right to vote to women
• all people born in the US are US citizens 
• overturns Plessy v Ferguson

Act that eliminated the so-called literacy tests that had disqualified many voters.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Brown vs. the Board of Education
• Roe Vs. Wade