Quiz Title

Racial segregation is _____________ in the United States today. *

Jim Crow laws and traditions ____________ white Americans and black Americans in the South before the 1960's.

The Civil Rights movement was about __________ racist laws against black Americans.

Civil rights __________ had to work very hard to change unfair laws and end discrimination against black Americans.

Supreme Court cases and federal laws _______________ the protections of black Americans’ civil rights by prohibiting segregation and discrimination.

• accept

• resist

• expanded

Civil rights activists used many strategies to resist and not ____________ unfair and racist laws against black Americans.

• accept

• movement

• banned

Until the Supreme Court’s decision in Loving v. Virginia in 1967, many states in the USA didn’t allow or __________ marriages.

• integration

• admire

• interracial

The Loving v. Virginia Supreme Court case was about having the right to marry a person of a different _________________. Mark only one oval.

“Like Martin Luther King, Jr., many activists chose to use peaceful or nonviolent methods to call attention to the problem and pressure the government to change.” What phrase explains why activists were protesting? Mark only one oval.

• many activists

• non-violent methods

• call attention to the problem and pressure the government to change

Jakie Robinson was _____________.