The Supreme Court and Civil Rights

Question 1

Which action would be considered an act of civil disobedience?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

engaging in a sit-in, in which African Americans stay at a segregated business

Question 2

What were affirmative action programs originally designed to encourage?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

increasing diversity in public institutions and businesses

Question 3

When Chief Justice Earl Warren stated, “A sense of inferiority affects the motivation of a child to learn,” what was he essentially stating?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Low self-esteem can have a negative impact on grades.

Question 4

What factor do Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, and Regents of California v. Bakke have in common?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

All three cases went to the Supreme Court for ruling.

Question 5

Which Supreme Court case ruled that racial quotas could not be used to reduce inequality in schools or workplaces?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Regents v. Bakke

Question 6

Why was Homer Plessy arrested?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

He sat down in a train’s whites-only car.

Question 7

How did the verdict in Brown v. Board of Education relate to the verdict in Plessy v. Ferguson?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

It set a new legal precedent on the issue of segregation.

Question 8

Which accurately describes what Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education had in common?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Both cases involved interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Question 9

How did the ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson affect the legalities of segregation?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

It set “separate but equal” as a legal precedent.

Question 10

Chief Justice Earl Warren stated, “Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” What did the use of “inherently” imply about segregation?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

By its very definition, it cannot be equal.

The Supreme Court and Civil Rights Answers