Segregation

The effect of segregation was to make it seem as though African Americans were what?

• superior

• upper class

• inferior

• unimportant

The case of Brown v Board of Education stated that separating students by race created educational facilities that were unequal and therefore violated what?

• The 5th Amendment

• The 8th Amendment

• The 13th Amendment

• The 14th Amendment

Who was sent to blockade the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas when 9 African American students integrated?

• Federal Marshals

• The Little Rock police force

• The National Guard

• The Arkansas state militia

The civil rights movement was a mass protest movement across the United States that aimed to stop which of the following?

• segregation

• discrimination

• integration

• disenfranchisement

Who was known as the Mother of the Freedom Movement as a result of her nonviolent resistance to segregation laws in Alabama?

• Harriet Tubman

• Rosa Parks

• Ruby Bridges

• Selma

Which best describes the lunch counter sit-ins?

• They took place in Mississippi and involved groups of African Americans protesting outside of restaurants and diners

• They took place in Alabama and involved African American teens removing stools from diners as an act of protest

• They took place in Mississippi and involved large groups of people refusing to go to restaurants and diners as an act of protest.

• Civil rights activists gathered to sit at segregated lunch counters for hours taking up seats that could have been filled by paying customers

Who was sent to protect Ruby Bridges as she walked through the angry mobs that gathered outside of William Frantz Elementary School?

• The local police force

• The National Guard

• The Federal Bureau of Investigations

• Federal Marshals

Ruby Bridges and 3 other girls were the first African American students to do what?

• Take a standardized test in New Orleans

• Integrate into an all white school

• Suffer segregation

• Enter kindergarten at John F Kennedy School

Some state governments refused to enforce the federal ruling to desegregate. In Virginia, what did some schools do to avoid integrating?

• close

• appeal the ruling

• continued segregating and were forced to pay fines

The arrest of Rosa Parks marked the beginning of which movement?

• The Lunch Counter Sit-Ins

• The Montgomery bus boycott

• The Alabama Transportation Boycott

• The March on Washington