Civil Rights Retest

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.

Who was arrested for refusing to give up their 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 

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

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

The main goal of the freedom riders was to 

• pressure the federal government to enforce the law banning segregation on interstate buses
• inspire students to protest in Birmingham against Jim Crow
• encourage Congress to pass Kennedy's civil rights agenda
• desegregate urban bus systems in the south

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

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

 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