Organizing to Demand Rights

Question 1

Long after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, some states had not desegregated their schools because

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the Supreme Court had not set a deadline for doing so.

Question 2

Which of the following Supreme Court decisions forced the University of Texas to admit an African American student to its law school?

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Sweatt v. Painter

Question 3

Which of the following called upon states to desegregate public schools “with all deliberate speed”?

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Brown II

Question 4

What main tactic did the NAACP use to fight for African American equality?

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arguing legal cases in court

Question 5

Which of the following names an NAACP member who became the first African American Supreme Court justice?

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Thurgood Marshall

Question 6

Earl Warren wanted a unanimous decision because

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he knew this was an extremely important case.

Question 7

In his arguments in Brown v. Board of Education, the lawyer for Oliver and Linda Brown claimed that “separate but equal” public schools were

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separate but not truly equal.

Question 8

Brown v. Board of Education was argued before the Supreme Court by

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Thurgood Marshall.

Question 9

What was the purpose of the Southern Manifesto?

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To condemn the Brown decision and declare an intention of Southern governments to oppose integration

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