School Inequality

What was the Separate Car Act?

• A law in Louisiana that required separate train cars for white and black people to sit

• A law in Louisiana that required white and black people to sit together

• A law in Illinois that required separate train cars for white and black people to sit

Who was Homer Plessy?

• A mixed-race man who did not like the Separate Car Act

• A white man who supported the Separate Car Act

• A mayor who introduced the Separate Car Act

Homer Plessy felt his _____________amendment rights were being violated

• 14th

• 5th

• 2nd

What was the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson?

• The Separate Car Act was unconstitutional

• The Separate Car Act violated the 14th Amendment

• Separate train cars for black and whites is legal

How many justices agreed with the Ferguson (State of Louisiana)

• 7

• 8

• 9

What is the three word phrase the Supreme Court used in their decision

• separate and equal

• Separate but equal

• separate and unequal

What did the 'separate but equal' ruling allow states to do?

• Pass laws that separated the states into equal parts

• Pass laws that kept white and black citizens together in public places

• Pass laws that kept white and black citizens separate in public places

Who was the lawyer who argued for the end to segregated schools?

• Thurgood Marshall

• Martin Luther King, Jr

• Andrew Young

When Linda Brown was barred from going to the school closest to her home, this led to what legal case in 1954?

• Brown vs. the United States

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

What did the Supreme Court rule in the Brown versus Board of Education court case in 1954?

• African-Americas could play sports
• Segregation of public schools became legal
• Segregation in public schools became illegal