The Civil Rights Movement Begins

Question 1

What was the issue at the heart of the case Sweatt v. Painter?

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C: Was the separate African American law school equal to the white school?

Question 2

What does the Supreme Court ruling at left suggest about Texas’s African American and white law schools?

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B: Separate facilities for African Americans and whites may be unequal in quality.

Question 3

Choose the right phrase to complete the sentence.What was the goal of Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP in the case of Brown v. Board of Education?

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C: To remove the entire system of segregated public education

Question 4

How does the Southern Manifesto characterize the relationship between African Americans and whites?

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B: Friendly

Question 5

What is Governor Faubus’s explanation for his opposition to the admission of African Americans to Central High School?

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B: He fears there may be violence and disorder if desegregation goes forward.

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