Civil Rights Movement

Brown vs. Board of Education was a famous case heard by the United States Supreme Court in 1954. The court ruled that it is illegal to:

• Allow children to work long hours in factories

• Segregate schools based on people’s skin color

• Pay black people less than white people for similar work

• Return an escaped slave to his/her master  

The policy of "separate but equal" was used to

• increase the number of political parties.

• justify the practice of legal racial segregation.

• prevent the passage of unfair laws.

• halt the creation of independent school districts.

What is the separation of people based on their skin color?

• Segregation

• Seperation

• Keeping Apart

• Division

What are Civil Rights?

• Rights that only some citizens get

• Rights that all citizens get

•  Rights that are civil

• Rights that are controlled by the president

This group traveled around the South in buses, stopping to protest segregation in large cities

• Integration Station

• Freedom Riders

• The Little Rock Nine

• Bus Brigade

Made charging a poll tax to vote illegal.

• 23rd Amendment

• 24th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

The main goal of the March on Washington on August 28, 1963 was to

• encourage the Supreme Court to make a decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

• pressure the president to introduce a civil rights bill to Congress.

• force the president to introduce a voting rights bill to Congress.

• convince the Supreme Court to overturn its decision in Plessy v. Ferguson.

What high school did the Little Rock Nine attend?

• Middle High School

• City High School

• Central High School

  
  

• Western High School

• County High School

What was a main goal of the Black Panthers?

• Housing

• Challenge police brutality in African American communities

• Full employment

• All of the above

How did the U.S. change after the Civil Rights Movement? SS5H6b

• Jim Crow laws were made illegal

• Segregation was made illegal.

• "Separate but equal" was done away with

• All of the above