UNIT 9 REVIEW

Segregation that is imposed by law is known as __________

• de facto segregation

• de jure segregation

• filibuster

• affirmative action

This is segregation by unwritten custom or tradition.

• de jure segregation

• de facto segregation

• affirmative action

• filibuster

This highly visible break in the wall of segregation took take place in 1947when __________joined the Brooklyn Dodgers,

• George Wallace

• Earl Warren

• JACKIE ROBINSON

• Medgar Evers

.In this Supreme Court decision the Court agreed with the NAACP’s argument that segregated public education violated the U.S. Constitution.

• BROWN VS BOARD OF EDUCATION OF TOPEKA

• Tinker v. Des Moines School District

• MAPP V. OHIO

• PLESSY VS FERGUSON

_______________ established the United States Civil Rights Commission and gave it the power to investigate violations of civil rights. It empowered the U.S. Attorney General to bring lawsuits to address civil rights violations. The law also gave the Attorney General greater power to protect the voting rights of African Americans.

• Civil Rights Act of 1957

• Tinker v. Des Moines School District

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Kerner Commission

This Arkansas Governor announced his opposition to the integration of public schools and called out the Arkansas state National Guard. 

• Orval Faubus

• George Wallace

• James Meredith

• Barry Goldwater

In December 1, 1955, _________, an African American seamstress, boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and sat down in an empty seat. Several stops later, the bus driver requested that she give up her seat to a white passenger.

• LAURA BUSH

• ROSYLN CARTER

• BETTY FORD

• Rosa Parks

Ella Baker, a veteran of the struggle for civil rights, helped young activists to establish a new civil rights organization, called the ______________

• BLACK PANTHERS

• SOUTHER CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

• CIVIL RIGHTS CRUSADERS

In the spring of 1961, CORE staged a_____________________through the Deep South. Riders set off in two separate buses from Washington, D.C., bound for New Orleans. 

• Freedom Summer

• “freedom ride”

• March on Washington

• MARCH ON SELMA

One struggle that gained international attention involved _______________, who sought to enroll at the all-white University of Mississippi.

• Barry Goldwater

• James Meredith

• Malcolm X

• Rosa Parks