Civil Rights

The goal of the Civil Rights Movement was to:

• Repeal segregation laws

• Overthrow the American government

• Build new houses and school for African Americans

• Make sure that African Americans received more privileges than whites.

What was the result of the Brown vs. Board of Education case?

• Special public schools were set up for African American students

• African American kids were prevented from attending the same schools as white kids

• African American kids were allowed to attend the same schools as white kids

Why was ending segregation so difficult?

• Most African Americans preferred segregation to integration.

• Segregation was enforced by many state and federal laws.

• Buses and schools were segregated in all 50 states.

Which is an example of nonviolent protest?

• Burning down segregated facilities

• Not doing business with companies that enforce segregation

• Threatening to physically hurt supporters of segregation

What role did the Supreme Court play during the Civil Rights Movement?

• It overturned some of the laws that made segregation legal

• It wrote new laws that made integration legal

• It supported the segregationist policies of Southern governors

• It urged Congress to pass new laws legalizing integration

What risks did civil rights protesters face?

• They often had their voting rights taken away

• They were sent forcibly to non-segregated states and countries

• They could be arrested or violently attacked

• They were forced to use segregated facilities

"We conclude that in the field of public education, the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal..."

This quotation illustrates the action of the supreme court to-

• uphold the decision in Plessy V. Ferguson

• Overturn the decision in Plessy V. Ferguson

• create job training for unemployed African Americans

• provide for educational funding for African Americans

The white people were sitting in the white section. More white people got on, and they filled up all the seats in the white section. When that happened, we black people were supposed to give up our seats to the whites. But I didn't move. The white driver said, "Let me have those front seats." I didn't get up.

"I'm going to have you arrested, " the driver said.

"You may do that," I answered.

~Rosa Parks

How did the event described by Rosa Parks affect the Civil Rights movement?

• It changed the wat police arrested public protesters.

• It resulted in a bus boycott that lasted more than a year.

• It lead to an increase in the number of registered voters.

• It prompted the government to station the National Guard in Southern states.

Desegregated all public schools. This was a major court case that involved Linda Brown attending an all-black school when an all-white school was closer to her home.

• Brown vs. the Board of Education

• 13th Amendment

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Jim Crow Laws

Separation of two or more races based on skin color

• segregation

• racism

• oppression

• facism