25.1 Quiz

Governor who ordered troops from the Arkansas National Guard to prevent African American students from entering school.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• Orval Faubus

• de facto segregation

• Rosa Parks

Set out to eliminate segregation from American society and to encourage African Americans to register to vote.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• Orval Faubus

• de facto segregation

• Rosa Parks

Segregation by custom and tradition.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• Orval Faubus

• de facto segregation

• Rosa Parks

Challenged segregation in court and launched the modern civil rights movement.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• Orval Faubus

• de facto segregation

• Rosa Parks

African American attorney who was the NAACP's chief counsel.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• Orval Faubus

• de facto segregation

• Rosa Parks

The Supreme Court's ruling in Brown vs Board of Education ended segregation

• in public schools.

• in private clubs.

• on buses.

• on trains.

The Plessy vs Ferguson ruling of 1896 established that laws segregating African Americans were permitted in the so-called

• "de facto segration" doctrine.

• "Southern segregation" doctrine.

• "separate-but-equal" doctrine.

• "constitutional segregation" doctrine.

After the Brown vs Board of Education decision, many states adopted an elaborate set of requirements other than race that schools could use to prevent African Americans from attending white schools, called

• prompt and reasonable start laws.

• pupil assignment laws.

• Jim Crow laws.

• separate-but-equal laws.

Outraged by Rosa Park's arrest, Jo Ann Robinson, head of a local organization called the Women's Political Council, called on African Americans to

• stage a sit-in at the courthouse.

• boycott Montgomery's buses.

• go on strike.

• elect new city officials.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., believed that the only moral way to end segregation and racism was through

• violence and riots.

• the political system.

• education.

• nonviolent passive resistence.