Jim Crow Laws
True or False: During WWII, African-American soldiers served in combat units.
What is false?
The word radical means this.
What is extreme?
A yard is exactly ________ feet.
What is 3.
The word segregation means this.
What is to keep separate?
True or False: African-American soldiers fighting in WWII found the French soldiers treated them better than American soldiers.
What is true?
This is a word for unfair treatment.
What is discrimination?
3 feet are equal to ___________ inches.
What is 36?
True or False: Segregation was legal in the United States until 1964.
True.
When African-American soldiers came back to the U.S., they had to return to this.
What is segregation?
The word integration means this.
What is to blend or bring together?
A rug that is 12 feet long is how many yards long?
What is 3?
The Supreme Court interprets laws which means they decide --
What a law means?
When was the Civil Rights Act passed?
What is 1964?
A nickname for segregations laws was --
What are Jim Crow laws.
Mrs. B is five feet and five inches. How many inches is this?
Why was Homer Plessy arrested?
He rode in a whites only train car.
In Freedom Summer, where did John Henry want to swim?
What is the town pool?
The name for the highest court in the land.
What is the Supreme Court?
Which is longer? 3 feet or 32 inches?
What is 3 feet?
In 1883, this was ruling of the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson.
It was okay for the African Americans to have separate but equal public facilities.