Civil Rights

What was the primary way the NAACP challenged discriminatory policies?

• They led many boycotts, sit ins, and marches to demonstrate their frustrations with segregation.
• They took a legal approach and brought cases to the courts that challenged practices of discrimination.
• They urged African Americans to resist discrimination "by any means necessary" and use violence if necessary.
• They voted in large numbers to elect politicians sympathetic to their cause.

What issue led to the Briggs v. Elliott case?

• A request to transfer children from the all-black school they attended to an integrated school in Clarendon County.
• A request to get new books for children in the all-black schools in Clarendon County.
• A request to get new air conditioning window units for the all-black schools in Clarendon County.
• A request to get a new bus to take children to the all-black school they attended in Clarendon County.

What court case became one of five that became part of the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas decision?

• Elmore v. Rice
• Briggs v. Elliott
• Loving v. Virginia
• Plessy v. Ferguson

What was the result of Brown v. the Board of Education?

• Schools were required to educate immigrants, regardless of their parent's nationality.
• Schools were allowed to continue the practice of segregation in certain cases.
• Schools were required to integrate schools "with all deliberate speed".
• Schools were required to educate women at the same time as the male population.

The equalization effort in South Carolina was a massive school building program aimed at doing which of the following?

• Getting South Carolina students ready to compete against the Soviets during the Cold War.
• Allowing South Carolina to continue to segregate students by meeting the "separate but equal" criteria.
• Building larger schools in order to educate large student populations created by integration.
• Updating schools with newer technology developed during World War II and the Cold War.

Which event, that lead to the killing of three people, took place in response to protests over the unlawful segregation of a bowling alley?

• The Denmark Vesey Revolt
• The Hamburg Massacre
• The Orangeburg Massacre
• The Freedom Riders Campaign

Which of the following best explains the United States Supreme Court ruling in Elmore v. Rice?

• The court ruled that the white control of farms was unconstitutional.
• The court ruled that the use of a white primary was unconstitutional.
• The court ruled that the white-only waiting rooms were unconstitutional.
• The court ruled that the white-only hiring practices were unconstitutional.

Which South Carolinian authored the Southern Manifesto which condemned the Brown v. Board of Education decision and encouraged resistance to desegregation?

• Modjeska Simkins
• Strom Thurmond
• Matthew Perry
• Septima Clark

Which of the following were organizations that fought for equal rights for African Americans throughout the 20th century? (Choose 3 that apply.)

• The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
• The National Association of Colored Women.
• The National Coalition of Freedmen.
• The National Urban League.

What three things increased the efforts to bring civil rights to African-Americans? (Choose 3 answers)

• Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education
• Influence of mass media
• Leadership of Martin Luther King Jr.
• The Southern Manifesto