Issues Leading to the Civil Rights Movement

Segregation: African Americans were subjected to a system of laws and customs that enforced racial segregation and denied them access to basic civil rights, such as the right to vote, own property, attend schools, or use public facilities such as restaurants, water fountains, and bathrooms. Often times, the facilities that were provided were inferior in quality.

What were African Americans denied access to?

• Basic civil rights

• Employment opportunities

• Healthcare services

• Transportation

Voter Suppression: Many Southern states used discriminatory practices such as literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses to prevent African Americans from voting, basically denying them their constitutional right to participate in the democratic process.

• True

• False

In 1954, the Supreme Court decided a case called Brown v. Board of Education. This case declared that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.

What year did the Supreme Court decide the Brown v. Board of Education case?

• 1954

• 1896

• 1964

• 1974

This case declared that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. With the ruling in 1954, the Supreme Court overturned the 'separate but equal' doctrine that had been established in the 1896.

What was the name of the case that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Roe v. Wade

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

In 1955, ________ (14-year-old) was brutally murdered in Money, Mississippi, after being accused of offending a white woman.

• Carolyn Bryant

• Mamie Till-Mobley

• Rosa Parks

• Emmett Till

During which event did Eisenhower send troops to Arkansas in order to desegregate a high school?

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Little Rock Nine

• Atomic Bombs

• Flying Tigers

Martin Luther King, Jr. first emerged as a leader of the civil rights movement when he

• led the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.

• refused to give up his seat on a bus to a white man.

• challenged the authority of the Supreme Court.

• was elected as the first black congressman from the South.

The separation of people based upon race or some other characteristic is referred to as?

• Assimilation 
• Civil Rights
• Segregation        
• Desegregation

disobeying certain laws in non-violent ways in order to make a point

• Civil Obedience 
• Civil Disobedience 
• Riots
• Angry protesting

Showing disapproval or resistance in a way that does not include violence.

• civil disobedience

• civil rights movement

• nonviolent protest

• Freedom Ride