Civil rights & Court Cases

Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.

• Sweatt v. Painter
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Mendez v. Kirby ISD

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

What state laws created separate public facilities for African Americans in the South?

• Jim Crow Laws
• affirmative action
• Civil Rights Acts
• Force Acts

In the 1954 trial of Brown v Board of Education, the US Supreme Court ruled that

• private schools should be controlled by the federal government
• issues of racial segregation should be decided by the states.
• racially segregated public schools are unconstitutional
• the "separate but equal" doctrine should be contnued

Supreme Court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson & integrated public schools

• Brown v. Board of Education
• Sweatt v. Painter
• Delgado v. Bastrop ISD
• Hernandez v. Texas

-Supreme Court case in which justices agreed that a Negro must be admitted at the University of Texas School of Law

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Sweatt v. Painter

• Sherman Antitrust Act

When Linda Brown was barred from going to the school closest to her home, this led to what legal case in 1954?

• Beacon vs Board of Education of New York City, New York
• Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
• Brown vs Board of Education of Chicago, Illinois
• Brown vs Board of Marchers, Topeka, Kansas

The separation of people based upon race or some other characteristic is referred to as?

• Assimilation 
• Civil Rights
• Segregation        
• Desegregation

What does civil rights mean?

• You have to be nice to others.
• It means the opposite of gold.
• All citizens are treated equally.
• To treat others unfairly.