Unit 4.4 (Part I)

Schools across the U.S. slowly began to integrate after the 1954 Supreme Court case of:

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Roe v. Wade

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Marbury v. Madison

A group of Black students who were the first to integrate into the formerly all white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas:

• Central High Nine

• Little Rock Integrators

• Central High Five

• Little Rock Nine

After his admission was revoked when the school learned he was Black, ______ was escorted onto the Ole Miss campus by U.S. Marshals, setting off riots that resulted in the deaths of two students.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Malcom X

• James Meredith

• Medgar Evers

A Baptist minister and iconic social rights activist of the Civil Rights Movement from Atlanta, GA:

• Malcom X

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Medgar Evers

• James Meredith

Passed in 1868, this amendment granted citizenship to African Americans and “All persons born or naturalized in the United States”:

• 13th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Focused on ending racial discrimination, the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the U.S. began its campaign against the “separate, but equal” ruling from Plessy v. Ferguson (1896):

• SNCC

• CRM

• NAACP

• ACLU

Passed in 1870, this amendment granted African-American men the right to vote:

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

What U.S. President signed Executive Order 9981, which integrated all branches of the U.S. military?

• Eisenhower

• Truman

• Roosevelt

• Kennedy

True or False - MLK believed racial progress could be achieved through aggression and violence.

• True

• False

Who was the leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, March on Washington, and the voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery?

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Malcolm X

• Rosa Parks

• John Lewis