Civil Rights

Splitting whites from blacks in the American South

• Separation

• Segregation

• Estrangement

• Disunion

• Partition

The segregation laws were nicknamed

• Martin Luther King

• Barack Obama

• Jim Crow

• Davy Crockett

Protests against Jim Crow laws

• Civilian Rights Act

• Civilian Rights Movement

• Civil Rights Movement

• Civil Rights Act

Problems that blacks had in Clarendon County, South Carolina

• White people owned most of the land

• Blacks worked for little pay

• Black schools were shabby, with no electricity or water

• All of these

Who appoints a federal judge?

• The US government

• The state government

• The city government

• All of these

• None of these

What did three lawyers argue, on May 28, 1951, in front of federal judges?

• Segregated schools violate the U.S. Constitution

• Integrated schools violate the U.S. Constitution

• Busing students to school violates the U.S. Constitution

• All of these

Did the lawyers succeed with their argument that segregated schools violate the U.S. Constitution?

• Yes

• No

• Draw

The name of the school segregation case

• Brown vs. Kansas

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• Black vs. Board of Education

• Black vs. Kansas

What U.S. court heard Brown vs. Board of Education?

• The Superior Court

• The District Court of Washington, D.C.

• The District Court of Topeka, Kansas

• The Supreme Court

The Supreme Court decided that

• Each state can make its own laws

• Segregated schools do not violate the Constitution

• Segregated schools violate the Constitution

• Whites are better than blacks