Civil Rights (London Watkins)

What did Brown v. Board of Education do?

• Added to segregation.

• Desegregated schools.

• Resegregated schools.

• Ended segregation.

Landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.

• 14th Amendment
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Sweat v Painter
• Plessy v. Ferguson

Allison and her high school friends, all under the age of 16, decide to go to the mall on Friday night, 8:00pm. The mall security refuses to let them enter saying they are too young and there is no adult supervision with them. Have these teenagers suffered a violation of their civil rights or civil liberties?

• Civil Rights

• Civil Liberties

• Both Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

• No violation has occurred

What are Jim Crow Laws?

• Laws that placed freedom limitations on nonwhite people
• Laws that made all people work together towards a common goal

Refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus.

• Mary Washington

• Jackie Kennedy

• Cesar Chavez

• Rosa Parks

Gave all male United States citizens over the age of 21 the right to vote

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

What was the significance of sending federal troops to protect African-American students in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957?

• It showed that the government would enforce court decisions on integration.

• It was the first time martial law had been declared in the united states

• It proved that the federal government was weak.

• It showed that states' governments had full control over education.

Outlawed racial discrimination in the workplace and in public places, including schools.

• 13th Amendment

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1964

In his "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail", Dr. King said, "I would agree with Saint Augustine that 'an unjust law is no law at all.'"

This statement was used by Dr. King to show support for-

• Social Darwinism

• Separation of church and state

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Disobedience

The movements led by Dr. King and Cesar Chavez were similar in that both -

• used civil disobedience to bring about social change

• supported attempts to overthrow the government

• boycotted agricultural crops

• were elected to national political office