African American Studies Review

Enforced racial segregation in the South; all were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures after the Reconstruction period.

• 13th Amendment

• Jim Crow Laws

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

What legal action made it acceptable to allow segregation in public facilities?

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Hernandez v. Texas

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• The Civil Rights Act of 1964

When African Americans refused to ride the public busses as a sign of protest; this began when Rosa Parks was jailed for refusing to give up her seat to a white man.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• March on Washington

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• 15th Amendment

Outlawed racial discrimination in the workplace and in public places, including schools.

• 13th Amendment

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1964

Which of the following BEST describes the significance of Emmett Till?

• First African American to attend the University of Alabama

• Established the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

• His death demonstrated the racial customs and segregated legal system of the South

• Organized Freedom Summer

When did Malcolm Little change his name to Malcolm X?

• When he first went to jail

• When his dad died

• When he joined the Nation of Islam

• When he dropped out of school

Malcolm X was a member of

• The Nation of Islam

• NAACP

• SNCC

• Black Panther Party

Civil Rights leader who helped establish the NAACP...

• Booker T Washington
• Frederick Douglass
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• W.E.B. Dubois

The 1896 court decision Plessy vs. Ferguson...

• Ended slavery in the United States  
• Allowed Native Americans the chance to become US citizens
• Established legal racial segregation
• Helped to regulate big business

One of the best-known female black abolitionists was

• Coretta Scott King

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Tubman

• Fannie Lou Hamer