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1.

when was the brown vs. board of education?

a)

1954

b)

1967

c)

1964

d)

1957

2.

NAACP

a)

national association for the advancement of colored people

b)

negro association for the aide of colored people

c)

Negro american association for colored protection

3.

name 2 NAACP founders

a)

james meredith

b)

henry moskowitz

c)

W.E.B Dubois

d)

orval faubus

e)

thurgood marshall

4.

goal of naacp

a)

to help black people

b)

to file law suits for rights

c)

to help minorities suffering from discrimination

d)

affordable lawyers

5.

the executive 9981 order did...

a)

ended segregated bathrooms

b)

ended segregated schools

c)

ended segregated busses

d)

ended segregation in the military

6.

who placed executive order 9981

a)

president eisenhower

b)

president harry s. truman

c)

president orval faubus

d)

president ross barnett

7.

principle of separate but equal

a)

brown v. board of education

b)

plessy v. sweatt

c)

swann. v. charlotte-mecklenburg

d)

plessy v. ferguson

8.

brown v. board of education

a)

Supreme Court case saying no to Plessy v. Ferguson, that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.

b)

a U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. The case involved a black man, Heman Sweatt, who was refused admission to the University of Texas School of Law on the grounds that the Texas State Constitution prohibited integrated education. At the time, no law school in Texas would admit blacks., Segregated law school in Texas was held to be an illegal violation of civil rights, leading to open enrollment.

c)

supreme court decision that ruled in the favor of the BoE, saying that busing was ok.

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executive order

d)

found not guilty, jury was all white and the defense used that to their own advantages.

9.

where was brown v. board of education

a)

greensboro North Carolina

b)

Central High Alabama

c)

topeka kansas

d)

washington DC

10.

swann v. charlotte-mecklenburg

a)

a U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. The case involved a black man, Heman Sweatt, who was refused admission to the University of Texas School of Law on the grounds that the Texas State Constitution prohibited integrated education. At the time, no law school in Texas would admit blacks., Segregated law school in Texas was held to be an illegal violation of civil rights, leading to open enrollment.

b)

found not guilty, jury was all white and the defense used that to their own advantages.

c)

Supreme Court case saying no to Plessy v. Ferguson, that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.

d)

supreme court decision that ruled in the favor of the BoE, saying that busing was ok.

11.

where did MLK work?

a)

ebernicker baptist church in atlanta georgia

b)

Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta Georgia

c)

civil rights office

12.

who killed MLK

a)

James Chaney

b)

James Earl Ray

c)

Lawrence Rainey

d)

Cecil Price

13.

who made an electoral speech announcing the death of MLK

a)

donald trump

b)

robert f. kennedy

c)

mlk

d)

Robert k. fennedy

14.

who worked with MLK, behind scenes and was gay and black

a)

Bayard Rustin

b)

emmett till

c)

michael schwerner

d)

Martin Luther King

15.

Emmitt Till

a)

Black man killed for helping 2 white new yorkers killed by kkk

b)

first black man at University of Mississippi

c)

An African American murdered by a white man for saying bye baby to a white woman.

d)

The first African-American girl to go to a white school; she had to have a police escort her

16.

cesar chavez

a)

like hispanic MLK

b)

street

c)

white land owner

17.

Black panther members

a)

Huey Newton,Bobby seals,

b)

James Chaney

c)

Angela davis, Rap Brown

d)

Eldridge Cleaver

e)

bobby seals, james chaney

18.

ada

a)

americans with disabilities act

b)

americans with diabetes association

c)

act of americans with disabilities

d)

NAACP

19.

de facto segregation

a)

Principal of "separate by equal¨

b)

bussing issues

c)

A group of students who were enrolled in a white high school on the basis of being black

d)

Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice.

20.

name 3 governors and their states

a)

george wallace of alabama

b)

ross faubus of alabama

c)

ross barnett of mississippi

d)

orval faubus of arkansas

e)

malcolm x of virginia

21.

who killed schwerner, goodman, and chaney

a)

lawrence price

b)

cecil price

c)

lawrence rainey

d)

cecil rainey

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