Informational Comprehension - Thurgood Marshall

What was the main idea of the passage?

• Thurgood Marshall argued and won a landmark case

  against the University of Maryland.

• Thurgood Marshall achieved many advances for civil

  rights in the United States.

• Thurgood Marshall served as the first African

  American Supreme Court Justice.

• Thurgood Marshall was creative.

Match the following

• enforced separation of different racial groups

• 14th Amendment

• a person's life written by that person.

• Segregation

• someone's life written by someone else.

• Autobiography

• guaranteed equal protection under the law for all Americans

• Biography

What types of cases did Marshall take on as a lawyer?

• Divorce cases

• Criminal cases

• Injury cases

• Civil Rights cases

How is the passage is organized?

• compare and contrast

• problem and solution

• chronological order

• cause and effect

What does chronological order mean?

• the order in which the events occurred, from first to last

• the order in which the events occurred, last to first

• the order in which the events occurred, from left to right

• your birthday

What are 2 ways Marshall impacted civil rights in America?

• He helped end segregation in public schools by winning Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.

• He helped create was to make plants healthy.

• He helped end segregation at the University of Maryland.

• He was good with politics.

What did the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka deal with?

• Howard University

• University of Maryland

• the policy of school segregation in Kansas

• the NAACP

What year was Thurgood Marshall was born?

• 1980

• 115 years old

• 1908

• 1918

Of the ​ (a)   cases Marshall won ​ ​ (b)   ​ a massive victory for protecting people’s individual rights and liberties.

• 32
• 29
• 24
• 1908

Thurgood Marshall was a prominent lawyer, which means he was what kind of lawyer?

• lazy

• made a lot of money

• important

• famous