Civil Rights

______ ________ are basic freedoms and protections , such as the right to a fair trial.

What did the Supreme Court ruling on Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 do to segregation?

• made it illegal

• made schools intergrated

• made it legal

• there was no decision made

What is the unfair treatment of people based on their race or gender?

• discrimination

• civil rights

• intergration

• sit-in

Who stepped on the field at Dodger Stadium in 1947 becoming the first African American to be allowed to play Major League Baseball?

• Thurgood Marshall

• Michael Jordan

• Ralph Bunche

• Jackie Robinson

Who became the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

• Ralph Bunche

• Gwendolyn Brooks

• Jackie Robinson

• Harry Truman

What was the court case called Brown v. Board of Educations of Topeka claiming?

• African Americans should be able to use any water fountain

• African Americans should be able to go to any movie theater

• African Americans students should be able to attend any school.

• African Americans should be able to play for Major League baseball.

Who was the lawyer for the NAACP in the Brown v. Board of Education Topeka?

• Jackie Robinson

• Thurgood Marshall

• Linda Brown

• Harry Truman

True or False? In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that "separate educational facilities are basically unequal".

• True

• False

What word means the mixing of different groups?

• segregation

• discrimination

• intergration

• nomination

What Jim Crow law did Rosa Parks challenge?

• African Americans had to drink from a separate water fountain.

• African Americans had to sit at the back of public buses.

• African Americans were not allowed to sit at white-only counters.

• African Americans could not attend all white schools.