Study Guide: Civil Rights Movement

What Supreme Court case ruled that "separate but equal" was legal in 1896?

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• Miranda vs. Arizona

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

• Dred Scott

Select the TWO amendments that Plessy's lawyers argued had been violated in his case.

• 13

• 14

• 15

• 12

Homer Plessy was a man from New Orleans who challenged the segregation laws involving what public entity?

• Swimming pools

• Schools

• Buses

• Trains

Who was Linda Brown?

• She refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, starting a boycott

• She was the first black girl to desegregate schools in New Orleans

• She was the face of the Supreme Court case that would eventually desegregate schools

• She was one of the Little Rock Nine, the first group of black students to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas

Who was the first black girl to desegregate public schools in New Orleans, Louisiana?

• Rosa Parks

• Martha White

• Linda Brown

• Ruby Bridges

True or False: Ruby Bridges was escorted to school every day by four federal marshals.

• TRUE

• FALSE

True or False: Ruby Bridges made many friends at her new school and ate lunch and played at recess with the white students.

• TRUE

• FALSE

True or False: Ruby Bridges had to take her own lunches to school after a parent threatened to poison her.

• TRUE

• FALSE

What was the Supreme Court case that, in 1954, overturned the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision and forced schools to desegregate.

• Tinker vs. Des Moines

• Gibbons vs. Ogden

• Dred Scott

• Brown vs. Board of Education

Which Civil Rights leader was from Atlanta, Georgia, believed in a non-violent approach to civil rights, and wrote the book "Letters from a Birmingham Jail"?

• Malcolm X

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Ruby Bridges

• John Lewis