Civil Rights Identify the Plessy v Ferguson decision

Civil Rights

Identify the Plessy v. Ferguson decision? • “Separate but equal” facilities were constitutional • Racial segregation was legal

What precedent was set by Plessy v. Ferguson? • Southern states could segregate public facilities.

What was another term for segregation laws? • Jim Crow laws

For what does NAACP stand? • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

For what 2 things did the NAACP work? • End legal segregation in the South • Gain the right to vote for African-Americans in the South

Who was an early leader of the NAACP? • W. E. B. Du. Bois

What Supreme Court decision set forth the “separate but equal” doctrine? • Plessy v. Ferguson

What was the 1954 Supreme Court decision in the Brown v. Board of Education case? • Supreme Court declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional

What was the constitutional basis of the Brown decision? • Racial segregation violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14 th Amendment

What Supreme Court decision declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional? • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

Who served as chief counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund at the time of the Brown decision? • Thurgood Marshall

Who was the most famous civil rights lawyer in Virginia? (He worked on the Prince Edward County school case. ) • Oliver Hill

Identify the Solid South. • Democratic Party control of Southern politics from late 19 th century to after World War II

Identify Massive Resistance. • Virginia’s attempt to avoid obeying the Brown desegregation decision

What Democratic U. S. senator led Virginia’s Massive Resistance movement? • Harry F. Byrd

What is the official name of the Virginia state legislature? • The Virginia General Assembly

What did the Brown decision show about the Supreme Court’s powers? • By interpreting its powers broadly, the Supreme Court could reshape American society

What event made Rosa Parks famous? • The Montgomery Bus Boycott

What was the goal of the 1963 March on Washington? • Gain passage of major civil rights laws by Congress

Who gave the “I have a dream” speech at the March on Washington? • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

For what method of protest was Dr. King known? • Non-violent, mass protest

What president played a major role in the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights law and the 1965 Voting Rights Act? • Lyndon B. Johnson

Identify the 1964 Civil Rights Act? • Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, or national origin in public places and by employers • Gave the federal government more power to enforce all civil rights laws

Give four examples of public places covered by the 1964 Civil Rights Act. • Motels • Hotels • Restaurants • Parks

Did the 1964 Civil Rights Act desegregate public accommodations? • YES

Give three examples of public accommodations. • Hotels • Motels • Restaurants

What was a literacy test? • Person had to prove he could read and write in order to vote

Identify the 1965 Voting Rights Act. • Outlawed literacy tests as a voting requirement • Sent federal registrars to the South to register black voters

Why did the Southern states require literacy tests? • To keep African. Americans from voting

What did the 1968 Civil Rights Act do? Outlawed racial discrimination in the sale and rental of housing

What does one call the movement of whites from the city to the suburbs in order to avoid sending their children to integrated public schools? • White Flight

What kinds of schools did Southern whites establish to avoid racial integration of public schools? • Private academies