Civil Rights (2023)

Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.

• Sweatt v. Painter
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Mendez v. Kirby ISD

Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal

• allow children to work.
• to pay black people less than white people.
• to return a slave.
• to segregate schools.

Who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus?

• Charlayne Hunter
• Harriet Tubman
• Rosa Parks
• Rebecca L. Felton

What group during the Civil Rights Movement allowed members to use all necessary means to defend and provide for their community?

• Southern Peace Corps

• NAACP

• SNCC

• Black Panthers

What group/individuals sought to improve the treatment of migrant workers through boycotts and strikes?

• SNCC, Martin Luther King

• Black Panthers, Newton

• United Farm Workers Union, Dolores Huerta & Cesar Chavez

• Immigration Union, Dolores Huerta & Cesar Chavez

What was the purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

• It gave black women the right to vote
• It made literacy tests in order to vote illegal
• It made Jim Crow Laws illegal
• It gave all blacks the right to vote

What was the purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

• It made Jim Crow Laws illegal
• It allowed blacks to run for public office
• It ended segregation in schools
• It made poll taxes illegal

What was the purpose of the 24th amendment?

• It ended slavery
• It ended segregation based on race
• It made poll taxes illegal
• It made it legal for Thurgood Marshall to be chosen to serve on the Supreme Court.

What did the president do for the Little Rock 9?

• He bought all of their textbooks.

• He drove them to school each day.

• He sent US soldiers to escort them to school each day.

• He bought them lunch at a lunch counter.

Which of the following best describes the 1957 events at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas?

• Governor Faubus resisted the school’s integration with National Guard troops, and President Eisenhower sent federal troops to enforce integration.

• President Eisenhower sent National Guard troops to resist the school’s integration, but Governor Faubus obtained a court order to dismiss them.

• President Eisenhower and Governor Faubus worked together to make the integration process run as smoothly as possible.