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