Jim Crow
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Ed
Cooper v. Aaron
Wild Card
100
This Disney movie contained a bird that reflected attitudes of southern whites towards blacks during the segregation era.
What is Dumbo?
100
What percentage of "Negro blood" must someone have had to be considered African-American?
What is 1/8th?
100
This is the year Brown v. Board of Education I was decided.
What is 1954?
100
What were the students in this case collectively known as?
Who are the "The Little Rock Nine?"
100
This is guaranteed under the 14th amendment.
What is "equal protection?"
200
The deliberate separation of the races. (Racial caste system mostly in effect in southern states).
What is segregation?
200
A practice where light-skinned blacks who looked more white than black did not reveal their true heritage in public.
What is passing?
200
This is where the incidents in the case of Brown v. Board of Ed took place (city and state).
What is Topeka, KS.
200
The city and state where this case took place.
What is Little Rock, Arkansas?
200
This first-grader had some "friends" escort her to school. These friends had badges and guns.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
300
This type of show typically stereotyped blacks as ignorant and lazy.
What is a minstrel show?
300
The doctrine that legalized segregation.
What is "separate but equal?"
300
This future Supreme Court justice headed the legal team of the NAACP, who took on this case.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
300
This branch of government stepped in to enforce the Supreme Court's holding in Brown v. Board of Ed.
What is the Executive Branch?
300
This is the agency that provided the "friends" for Ruby Bridges.
What is the U.S. Marshals Service?
400
The practice of a white (or other person) putting on dark make-up and accentuating features to impersonate a black person, almost always negatively.
What is blackface?
400
The lone dissenter in Plessy, he had a mixed-race sibling.
Who is Justice Harlan?
400
The constitutional provision that the Supreme Court looked to in deciding this case.
What is the 14th Amendment?
400
The governor of Arkansas attempted to prevent integration of schools by using this group.
What is the Arkansas National Guard?
400
In what year did Ruby Bridges' friends accompany her to school?
What is 1960?
500
This type of law made it illegal for blacks to be out in certain parts of town after dark.
What is a sundown law?
500
The state where the events of Plessy v. Ferguson took place.
What is Louisiana.
500
Desegregation of schools must proceed within this timeframe?
What is "all deliberate speed?"
500
The President of the US at the time of this case, he called the Arkansas governor's bluff by sending in the U.S. Army to integrate the school.
Who is President Dwight D. Eisenhower?
500
Both Brown v. Board of Ed. and Cooper v. Aaron received this number of votes by the Supreme Court justices.
What is 9-0? (Unanimous)
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