Civil rights movement section 1 quiz

Gave the US attorney general greater power to protect the voting rights of African Americans

Civil rights act of 1957

Segregation by custom or tradition

De facto segregation

Segregation imposed by law

De jure segreation

Chris justice if he Supreme Court at the time of brown vs. the board of education

Earl Warren

To which city did president Eisenhower send federal troops to protects African American students

Little Rock, Arkansas

Held to protest the arrest of Rosa Parks

Montgomery bus boycott

Which civil rights organization won a number of important court cases against segregation in the 1950s

NAACP

Refused to relinquish a bus seat to a white passenger

Rosa Parks

The members of the congress of racial equality (CORE) believed

That direct, nonviolent methods could gain civil rights for African Americans

What were the Jim Crow laws?

They were laws that enforced the strict separation of the races