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Emmett Till Story Vocabulary

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

One who supports segregation is called a what?

a)

desegregationist

b)

segregationist

c)

citizen

d)

juror

2.

"To segregate" is to what?

a)

to teach students about the Civil Rights Movement

b)

to prosecute a criminal in a court of law

c)

to find a a racist guilty of something

d)

legally require separation between races in public buildings

3.

"To desegregate" is to what?

a)

allow or enforce separations in public spaces

b)

remove separations between races in public spaces

c)

to provide help toward poor people who need it

d)

to make students attend schools with only children of their same race

4.

What kind of rights are afforded to citizens under the constitution?

a)

civil rights

b)

alien rights

c)

desergregation rights

d)

billable rights

5.

The Civil Rights Movement in America was fought by whom?

a)

Female Americans

b)

Asian-Americans

c)

African-Americans

d)

Native Americans

6.

During what decades did the Civil Rights movement make the biggest strides in America?

a)

1910's-1920's

b)

1950's-1960's

c)

1990's-2000's

d)

2010's-2020

7.

What kind of "laws" enforced segregation in Southern states?

a)

Segregationist Laws

b)

African-American laws

c)

Thomas P. Brady laws

d)

Jim Crow laws

8.

What case allowed Jim Crow laws to be legal?

a)

Roe v. Wade

b)

Brown v. Board of Education

c)

Plessy v. Ferguson

d)

Hanover v. McKinley

9.

Which case overturned (or revoked) Plessy v. Ferguson?

a)

Brown v. The Board of Education

b)

Hanover v. McKinley

c)

The People v. John Doe

d)

Roe v. Wade

10.

The Brown v. Board of Education case had to do with desegregating what?

a)

courtrooms

b)

schools

c)

bathrooms

d)

stores

11.

The ________________ did not want to abide by the Brown v. BOE decision.

a)

East

b)

West

c)

North

d)

South

12.

Who authored the book called Black Monday which was about opposing desegregation?

a)

Thomas P. Brady

b)

Thurgood Marshall

c)

JW Milam

d)

Henry Bryant

13.

Which book helped provide the philosophy and plan for segregation to continue and was adopted by the White Citizens' Council?

a)

Black Tuesday

b)

Segregation Forever

c)

Black Monday

d)

Black Friday

14.

When a mob of people get "justice" illegally by killing someone, often by hanging, it is called what?

a)

a lynching

b)

mercy killing

c)

euthanasia

d)

race-injustice

15.

When a person is formally accused of a crime by a court and is called to be put on trial, he/she is what?

a)

evidenced

b)

allighted

c)

lynched

d)

indicted

16.

When legal charges are dropped against a person, it is said that that person has been what?

a)

acquitted

b)

released

c)

removed

d)

indicted

17.

A system that is practiced by a society and considered "forbidden" and bad is called a what?

a)

harbinger

b)

taboo

c)

recluse

d)

indictment