early civil rights movement

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

A legal term that allowed segregation, as long as both white and African American areas and services were equal.

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• 14th Amendment

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

• separate but equal

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

• Integration

• Segregation

• Desegregation

• Discimination

The NAACP stands for...

• The National Association for Adding continents and people

• The Nation Association for Advancement of Colored Pencils

• The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• The National Association for the Advertisement of Classes and Paper

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

• Board vs. Board of Education

• Dred Scott vs. Stanford

• Miranda v. Arizona

The process of ending the separation of two groups of people, often involving a change in laws.

• Integration

• Desegregation

• Segregation

• Discrimination

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

Who was the Arkansas governor that sent the National Guard to keep nine African Americans students out of school?

• Orval Faubus

• George Wallace

• Lester Maddox

• Bull Connor