The Civil Rights Movement Begins

Question 1

What was the NAACP’s goal in filing the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education lawsuit?

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to end segregation in public education

Question 2

Earl Warren wanted a unanimous decision because

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he knew this was an extremely important case.

Question 3

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 4

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 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

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

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Brown II

Question 7

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

Question 8

Who called for “massive resistance” by southern politicians to the Brown decision?

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Harry Byrd

Question 9

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 10

Which of the following encouraged the NAACP to become involved with Reverend Oliver Brown’s lawsuit against a board of education in Kansas?

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the Supreme Court’s decision in Sweatt v. Painter

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