Civil Rights

Brown vs. Board of Education was a famous case heard by the United States Supreme Court in 1954. The court ruled that it is illegal to:

• Allow children to work long hours in factories
• Segregate schools based on people’s skin color
• Pay black people less than white people for similar work
• Return an escaped slave to his/her master  

Define segregation

• to refuse to buy, use, or go to, in order to make a protest or bring about a change.

• the practice of separating people according to groups, especially racial groups.

• the process of bringing all parts together into a whole.

• an objection or complaint

What previous Supreme Court decision did Brown v. Board overturn?

• Worcester v. Georgia
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Roe v. Wade
• Marbury v. Madison

What Supreme Court case ended segregation in schools?

• Korematsu v US
• Brown v Ferguson
• Brown v Board of Ed
• Plessy v Ferguson

The 13th Amendment to the US Constitution states

• all citizens are have the right to vote
• ends slavery
• separate but equal is unconstitutional
• outlaws grandfather clauses

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

The 15th Amendment to the US Constitution states

• all citizens have the right to vote
• slavery is illegal
• all people born in the US are US citizens
• no other amendments can be added to the Constitution

Laws enacted by Southern state and local governments to separate white and black people in public and private facilities.

• Racist

• Prejudice

• Discrimination

• Jim Crow

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

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

What state laws created separate public facilities for African Americans in the South?

• Jim Crow Laws
• affirmative action
• Civil Rights Acts
• Force Acts