Civil Rights Movement Quiz #1

What legal principle was established by Plessy v. Ferguson and overturned in Brown v. Board of Education?

• "Separate but Equal"

• "Judicial Review"

• "Manifest Destiny"

• "Equal Footing"

• "Sovereign Immunity"

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a Supreme Court decision that

• was a forerunner of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

• established free public colleges in the U.S.

• declared racially segregated public schools inherently unequal. 

• established free public elementary and secondary schools in the U.S.

•  provided for federal support of parochial schools.

In its decision in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court held that

• separate facilities for different races were inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional.

•  no black slave could be a citizen of the U.S.

• separate but equal facilities for different races were constitutional.

• affirmative action programs were acceptable only when it could be proven that specific previous cases of discrimination had occurred within the institution or business in question.

The 14^th Amendment to the Constitution was important because it

•  prohibited slavery within the U.S.

• guaranteed equal protection under the law for every American citizen.

• prohibited any state from denying an American citizen the right to vote based on race/ethnic background, color, or having previously been a slave.

• prohibited any state from denying women the right to vote.

• provided Congress with the power to establish and collect income taxes.

The emotional catalyst of the modern Civil Rights Movement was the

•  integration of baseball by Jackie Robinson.

• murder of Emmett Till.

• the desegregation of the military by Truman.

•  the Mendez case in California.

Rosa Parks was a hero of the Civil Rights movement because...

• She refused to give up her seat in Montgomery, AL

• She wanted to have the right to make medical decisions

• She was expelled from Central High School, while trying to end segregation in Arkansas

• She was arrested and interrogated for hours w/o an attorney present.

The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Montgomery ordinance of segregation in city buses was unconstitutional, in which court case?

• Marbury v. Madison

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Bowder v. Gayle

• Plessy v. Ferguson

Thurgood Marshall became _______.

• a president of the United States.
• a principal in a school who fought racism.
• the first African American on the Supreme Court.
• one of the authors of the constitution.

Marshall took the case "Brown vs. the Board of Education" to the Supreme Court and won. What were the results of this success?

• It gave Linda Brown the freedom to attend the school close to her home.
• It showed that "separate but equal" was not truly equal.
• It ended all segregation in public schools.
• All answers are correct.

A 1947 federal court case that challenged Mexican remedial schools in Orange County, California. In its ruling, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the forced segregation of Mexican American students into separate "Mexican schools" was unconstitutional and unlawful.

• Mendez v. Westminster

• Delgado v. Bastrop ISD

• Edgewood ISD v. Kirby

• Brown v. Board of Education