Civil Rights Legislation

Which Supreme Court decision stated that segregation was legal as long as separate but equal facilities were available for all?

• Brown v. Board of Education

• 13th Amendment

• Boynton v. Virginia

• Plessy v. Ferguson

Which amendment rules that citizens are not to be denied the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness without due process?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

Which amendment abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude except for prisoners?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

True or false: The 15th amendment extends voting rights to all people who were formerly enslaved.

• True

• False

Which act was signed into law to make it illegal to discriminate against voters based upon race?

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Civil Rights Act of 1968

• 19th Amendment

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

Which president signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

• John F. Kennedy

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Richard Nixon

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.

Literacy tests & poll taxes were used in the South to keep African Americans from doing what?

• voting
• serving in the military
• moving north
• getting an education

The Selma March is also known as ____. 

• Bloody Sunday
• Black Sunday
• Bloody Tuesday
• Black Tuesday

Which of the following describe the ideas of Martin Luther King, Jr.?

• Financial reparations should be paid for all citizens who were the children of former slaves.
• De facto, of voluntary segregation of the races
• Using force to achieve African American equality
• Non-violent civil disobedience