Question

What were jim crow laws?

A.They were laws that protected African Americans
B.They were laws that restricted African American voting rights in the North.
C.They were laws that enforced the strict separation of the races,
D.They were laws that restored equal rights to black

Which civil rights organization won a number of important court cases against segregation in the 1950's
A. SCLC
B. CORE
C. MIA
D. NAACP

In a ruling known as Brown II, the supreme court
A. Overturned Brown vs Board of Education.
B. Ordered the immediate implemenation of Brown vs Board of Education
C. Implemented "The Southern Manifesto."
D. Upheld the segregation of central high school in Little Rock, Arkansas.

The conflict at Little Rock's Central high school was a reaction to
A. the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
B. the Montgomery bus boycott
C. Brown vs. Board of Education.
D. Hernandez vs Texas

Answer 1

Jim Crow laws, in U.S. history, statutes enacted by Southern states and municipalities, beginning in the 1880s, that legalized segregation between blacks and whites. The name is believed to be derived from a character in a popular minstrel song.