Segregation based upon social practices such as residential housing patterns.
What is de facto segregation?
100
This method provided that any person whose grandfather had voted prior to 1867 could register to vote regardless of performance on the literacy test.
What is the grandfather clause?
100
This act prohibited the use of laws or customs to prevent individuals from voting.
What is the Anti Ku Klux Klan Act 1872?
100
Prohibits discrimination in employment against senior citizens.
What is Age Discrimination in Employment Act?
100
The Court ordered busing to achieve integration.
What is Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg?
200
The legal separation of the races.
What is de jure segregation?
200
A potential voter had to prove he/she could read or write prior to voting.
What is the literacy test?
200
This measured was the last act passed during Reconstruction. It prohibited discrimination in places of public acommodations.
What is the Civil Rights Act 1875?
200
The first federal law that protect persons with disabilities.
What is Rehabilitation Act 1973?
200
This organization is dedicated to racial equality.
What is the NAACP?
300
The swearing of blacks and whites on separate Bibles in a court of law, separate schools for black children and white children, and separate water fountains for the races are all examples of which type of laws.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
300
Potential voters in Mississippi had to live in that state and a county within the state for one year prior to registering to vote.
What is the residency requirement?
300
This act was passed based upon the right of Congress to regulate interstate commerce.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
300
This act banned literacy test.
What is the Voting Rights Act 1965?
300
This oragnization is committed to obtaining equality for women.
What is NOW?
400
A retreat at the national level to the commitment to civil rights and the abandonment of blacks by the Republican Party.
What is what happened to blacks after Reconstruction?
400
The most effective method of disfranchiement was the method used to exclude the black voter from having a voice in choosing candidates for public office.
What is the white primary?
400
This act established the EEOC.
What is Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
400
One must be a resident of a state for this lenght of time before registering to vote.
What is thirty days?
400
Native American were extended citizenship in what year.
What is 1924?
500
Separate but equal is deemed legal.
What is Plessey v Fergueson?
500
The Supreme Court declared the white primary unconstitutional.
What is Smith v Allwright 1944?
500
This act increased black voter registration in the South.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
500
According to the VRA a language minority must be protected if it constitutes what percentage of a state's population.
What is five percent?
500
Thurgood Marshall
Who was the first African-American appointed to the
U. S. Supreme Court?