Civil Rights Era RT

required desegregation of schools, NAACP’s Thurgood Marshall helped argue case (a)  

• Brown v. board of education
• Plessy v Ferguson
• Dred Scott vs Sandford
• Korematsu v. United States

Civil Rights group that use armed resistance to protect and defend themselves, Huey Newton was leader

• Brown Berets

• Black Panthers

• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

• Center for Constitutional Rights

Little Rock, Arkansas-Governor Orval Faubus challenged the power of the Federal government to desegregate schools

• True

• False

required equal treatment of minorities in the workplace

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Social Security Act

• Homestead Act

• Sherman anti-trust Act

ended poll taxes and literacy test as a requirement to vote, resulted in increased voting by minorities

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Social Security Act

During Reconstruction the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments were ratified. Which issue did these amendments address?

• Rights for women

• Readmission of states to the Union

• Rights for former slaves

• Presidential impeachment proceedings

In the late 1800s, the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson-

• established a legal remedy for victims of discrimination

• created a legal justification for segregation laws

• affirmed the legality of federal regulation of state elections

• recognized public protests as a legal form of civil disobedience

Which action occurred as a result of the Supreme Court decision excerpted above?

• The desegregation of public schools

• The requirement of equal access to school facilities for disabled students

• The expansion of science in school curricula

• The implementation of requirements for federal certification of private-school teachers

Who was most instrumental in the event described in this headline?

• Rosa Parks

• Thurgood Marshall

• Ella Baker

• Medgar Evers

How did the event described by Rosa Parks in this excerpt affect the Civil Rights movement?

• It resulted in a bus boycott that lasted more than a year.

• It led to an increase in the number of registered voters in southern states

• It changed the way police arrested public protesters.

• It prompted the government to station the National Guard in southern states.