Civil Rights Review

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

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

This tragedy made the need for Civil Rights painfully obvious to Americans.

• Rosa Parks' arrest

• The March on Washington

• The passage of the 13th Amendment

• The murder of Emmett Till

This trained activist was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus.

• Charlayne Hunter
• Harriet Tubman
• Rosa Parks
• Rebecca L. Felton

An organization formed in 1960 to coordinate sit-ins and other protests and to give young blacks a larger role in the civil rights movement.

• affirmative action
• de facto segregation
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 
• National Organization for Women 

Act that eliminated the so-called literacy tests that had disqualified many voters.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Brown vs. the Board of Education
• Roe Vs. Wade

Where did the first sit-ins for civil rights take place?

• on busses
• in schools
• at polling places
• at lunch counters

Lawyer who argued for the Brown family in Brown v. Board of Education who later became a Supreme Court Justice.

• Jim Crow

• Thurgood Marshall

• Malcolm X

• Bull Conner

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

Where did President Eisenhower send the 101st Airborne to enforce integration of a public high school?

• Little Rock, Arkansas
• Tuscaloosa, Alabama
• Birmingham, Alabama
• Jackson, Mississippi

 What was the common goal of the sit-in movement and the Freedom Rides?

• to seek legal remedies to inequality
• to end segregation in all public areas
• to end segregation in public schools
• to force segregation to respond violently