59. Unit 9-6: Civil Rights (part 1)

Match it! Select the correct answer from the pull down...Good luck!

The ___________Amendment grants ALL people equal protection of the laws.

Your civil rights are simply the rights _____________to all citizens through the Bill of Rights.

Most ___________were not racist. The government forced these laws on them.

A. Philip Randolph played a large role in the Civil Rights Movement . He was able to help Black Americans get factory jobs and helped to ______________the military.

The Little Rock 9 students tried to go to a white school. State governments do not permit this. Federal government ____________ in and granted the students access to the school with military escorts to school all year.

The 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v Board of Education forced the states to ___________schools.

The states were in control of voting. They made it difficult for Black Americans to pass literacy tests to be able to vote.

Plessy v Ferguson was overturned after the schools were desegregated. Lawyers argued “separate can not possibly be equal”.