Civil Rights Movement

Southern states passed __________ which were designed to keep African Americans and white people apart.

• Jim Crow Laws

• Crow Jim Laws

Jim Crow Laws cause racial _______________ because it made it legal to have separate drinking fountains, telephone booths, restrooms, hospitals, and school.

• integration

• separation

In the South, African Americans were treated like _______ class citizens.

• 1st

• 2nd

• 3rd

Oliver Brown sued the Board of Education in Topeka, Kansas because his daughter had to travel one mile to get to her black school even though the white school was closer.

• True

• False

The Board of Education Court Case overturned an earlier court case called _________________ that said "separate but equal" was ok.

• 1896 Plessy v Ferguson

• Brown v Board of Education

___________ led the Montgomery Bus Boycott and urged people to boycott the buses.

• Martin Luther King

• Thurgood Marshall

How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?

• 2 years

• a little over 1 year

• 6 months

The US Supreme Court eventually outlawed __________ of all public transportation in the city.

• segregation

• integration

What was the purpose of the Sit-Ins?

• to practice self-control

• to relax

• to peacefully protest segregated restaurants and force change

• to encourage the government to step in and change the housing laws

Fill in the blank!

The _________________ planned to attend classes at Central High School in Little Rock, AK which was still a segregated school.

• Little Rock 5

• Arkansas 7

• Little Rock 9

• Freedom Riders