Civil Rights Movement Quiz

In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court ruled that...

• states may not secede from the Union

• all western territories should be open to slavery

• racial segregation was legal

• slaves are property and may not be taken from their owners

The practice of separating people into different areas, usually because of their race, class, or ethnic group.

• Integration

• Segregation

• Desegregation

• Discimination

A court case in 1954 that ended segregation in schools. The Supreme Court ruled that separate but equal schools for African American and white children were unconstitutional.

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• Dred Scott vs. Stanford

• Miranda v. Arizona

The process of bringing together people, usually of different races or religions, and providing them with equality in society or an organization.

• Integration

• Discrimination

• Segregation

• Desegregation

Nine African American students who attended Central High, a school with 2,000 white students. The governor ordered troops from Arkansas National Guard to prevent the nine from entering the school.

• Ruby Bridges

• Linda Brown

• Little Rock Nine

• Arkansas Nine

What was the effect of the case Brown v. Board of Education?

• establish segregation in schools

• require the integration of public schools

• allow African Americans in the military

• force men and women to be given equal employment opportunities

What were the laws called that separated black people from white people?

• Jim Crow Laws

• Amendments

• Lincoln Laws

• Emancipation Laws

During the Montgomery Bus Boycott people were protesting the fact that

• blacks paid more to ride the bus than whites.

• blacks could not ride the bus.

• blacks had to sit separately from whites on the bus.

• blacks had to sit next to whites on the bus.

Dr. Martin Luther King believed in _____________.

• violence

• nonviolence

• segregation

• discrimination

The Little Rock Nine and Ruby Bridges helped to ___________ schools in the south.

• integrate

• segregate

• boycott