Origins of the Civil Rights Movement

What was the result of the Brown versus Board of Education court case in 1954?

• Segregation of public schools became illegal
• African Americans began to play professional sports
• Martin Luther King led the March on Washington
• Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus

**Look at the image**

What was one way the decision described in this passage affected the United States in the first half of the 20th century?

• Minorities were not allowed to attend schools with whites.

• Affirmative action programs were ruled unconstitutional.

• Poll taxes in federal elections were unconstitutional.

1865 - abolished slavery and involuntary servitude

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendent
• 15th Amendment

Laws that were in place in the South that led to the Civil Rights Movement?

• Jim Crow

• Jim Bird

• Jon Snow

• Dr. King

Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice, first became famous for which of the following:

• Organizing the March on Washington
• Not giving us his bus seat
• Winning the court case of Brown versus Board of Education
• Giving African Americans the right to vote

Which Amendment states that anyone born in the United States is a citizen?

• 14th
• 15th
• 16th
• 13th

A struggle for social justice during the 50s and 60s for African Americans to gain equal rights under the law was called?

• Executive Order 9981

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Civil Rights Movement

• March on Washington

The Court Case that overturned “Separate but Equal” ruling?

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Brown vs Board of Education

• Regents of UC Davis v Bakke

Who was the first African-American baseball player to join the major leagues?

• Derek Jeter

• Jackie Robinson

• Willie Mays

• Jonas Salk

Which Supreme Court case ruled that UT's law school for African Americans failed to qualify as, "separate but equal?"

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board

• Sweatt v. Painter