Civil Liberties and Civil Rights (2023)

Brown vs. Board of Education was a famous case heard by the United States Supreme Court in 1954. The court ruled that it is illegal to:

• Allow children to work long hours in factories
• Segregate schools based on people’s skin color
• Pay black people less than white people for similar work
• Return an escaped slave to his/her master  

What was significant about the court case Plessy v. Ferguson?

• It gave former slave due process rights.

• It promoted integration after the Civil War

• It established the "separate but equal" doctrine

• It ended Presidential Reconstruction

Which constitutional amendment gave voting rights to former slaves?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, it was no longer legal to

• let African Americans ride the bus.
• deny someone of a job because of their race.
• fire someone for not doing their job.
• kick someone out of the military.

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

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

Keeping things or people SEparate

• prejudice
• union
• confederate
• segregation

First African American Supreme Court judge. He was the attorney for Linda Brown with Brown vs. the Board of Education.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• John F. Kennedy

• Thurgood Marshall

• Rosa Parks

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

This amendment abolished (ended) slavery

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Gave all citizens born in the United States citizenship (rights of citizens); look for the amendments in your notebook!!!

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment