Civil Rights Review

This law banned segregation in public areas and discrimination in the workplace

• CRA 1957

• CRA 1960

• CRA 1964

• CRA 1965

Many cities in the north, including Philadelphia, Chicago and Cleveland, have a large black population because…

• The Great Migration led people to move up North for jobs

• Unions were recruiting black people to come north

• Industries in the north needed workers and recruited blacks to move

• Niagara Movement won several court cases ending racial segregation

Which court case created the concept of separate but equal?

• Shelley v Kraemer

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Dred Scott v Sandford

• Heart of Atlanta Motel v US

This outlaws literacy tests and poll taxes

• CRA 1957

• VRA 1965

• Brown v Board of Education

• Loving v Virginia

Which amendment gave African Americans citizenship and guaranteed equal protection under the law?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

A problem that occurs throughout the Civil Rights Movement, from the 1860’s to the 1960’s, is that…

• The federal government is unwilling to enforce the law

• Congress will not pass any laws to help the Civil Rights cause

• The courts never make a ruling that assists the cause of equality and Civil Rights

• The Movement was always lacking a recognizable leader

What court case overturned the concept of "separate but equal?"

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Civil Rights Cases

• Katzenbach v McClung

• Brown v Board of Education

What previous event allowed the Supreme Court to say that racial covenants were legal?

• Civil Rights Cases

• Plessy v Ferguson

• CRA 1875

• Dred Scott v Sandford

Thurgood Marshall’s main argument regarding “separate but equal” is that…

• it is not fair to black children to separate them from white schools

• the states did not provide enough financial resources to black schools

• the federal government had already determined that it was not legal

• it is inherently unequal to separate children

The Selma to Montgomery March assisted in…

• desegregating intrastate buses in Alabama

• getting the Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed

• desegregating schools in Selma, Mississippi and Montgomery, Alabama

• the Supreme Court ruling that the CRA of 1957 was unconstitutional