Segregation's Sting
What was the term for the forced separation of students based on race?
a) Integration
b) Assimilation
c) Segregation
c) Segregation
Native American children were forcibly taken from their homes and sent to these institutions.
a) Public schools
b) Boarding schools
c) Trade schools
b) Boarding schools
Before the Civil War, many Southern states made it illegal to teach this group to read.
a) Immigrants
b) Enslaved African Americans
c) Native Americans
b) Enslaved African Americans
What Supreme Court case declared "separate but equal" unconstitutional?
a) Plessy v. Ferguson
b) Brown v. Board of Education
c) Dred Scott v. Sandford
b) Brown v. Board of Education
What was a primary goal of Native American boarding schools?
a) Assimilation
b) Cultural preservation
c) Higher education
a) Assimilation
What type of education were African American students often steered towards?
a) Liberal arts
b) Medical school
c) Vocational training
c) Vocational training
Many schools practiced this form of segregation, even after it was ruled illegal, due to residential patterns.
a) Legal segregation
b) De facto segregation
c) Voluntary segregation
b) De facto segregation
What type of abuse was common in Native American boarding schools?
a) Only verbal
b) Physical and emotional
c) Only neglect.
b) Physical and emotional
What was a common barrier to higher education for minority students?
a) High tuition costs
b) Discriminatory admissions policies
c) Both A and B
c) Both A and B
What was the name of the court case that ended segregation of Mexican American students in California schools?
a) Brown vs Board of education
b) Mendez vs Westminster
c) Lau vs Nichols
b) Mendez vs Westminster
What was the long term effect of the boarding school system on Native communities?
c) Intergenerational trauma.
What is the term for the trend of minority students being disproportionately disciplined, leading to exclusion from educational opportunity.
a) Academic achievement gap
b) School-to-prison pipeline
c) Teacher shortage
b) School-to-prison pipeline.