Civil rights

What does NAACP stand for?

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• National Association for the Advancement of Community Programs

• National Association for the Advancement of Civil Protection

• National Association for the Advancement of Cultural Progress

What happened in Plessy v Ferguson?

• Supreme court Allowed "separate But equal" students to sit in different classrooms

• Supreme court banned segregation in all schools

• Supreme court ruled that women could vote

• Supreme court ended slavery in the United States

What did the 1965 Voting Rights Act do?

• Gave federal government the power to allow every African American the right to vote

• Established the Bill of Rights

• Ended the Civil War

• Created the Social Security program

What happened in Brown v. Board of Education?

• Court ruled all Schools Equal-- all kids regardless of race could sit in the same classroom

• Court ruled that only private schools could segregate students by race

• Court decided that segregation in schools was constitutional

• Court ruled that only colleges had to integrate, not public schools

Definition of integrate- ____________

• To bring races together

• To separate groups

• To ignore differences

• To create conflict

Definition of Prejudice- ____________

• a favoring or dislike of something without good reason

• a scientific explanation for behavior

• an official law or regulation

• a method of logical reasoning

How many justices are on the Supreme Court?

• 9

• 7

• 11

• 5

Martin Luther King Jr. has a famous speech called what?

• I Have A Dream

• We Shall Overcome

• The Gettysburg Address

• Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You

Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat led to what movement?

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• March on Washington

• Brown v. Board of Education

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?

• Outlawed segregation and discrimination in all places

• Established the right to vote for women

• Created the Social Security program

• Declared independence from Britain