Unit Test — Unit test Answers

How did the federal government support desegregation? Check all that apply.

Read the excerpt from the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision.We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of "separate but equal” has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. . . .[The courts must issue] orders and decrees . . . to admit to public schools on a racially nondiscriminatory basis with all deliberate speed the parties to these cases.Brown v. Board of Education,Chief Justice Earl Warren,1954–1955

One of the areas that both Mexican American and African American leaders focused their civil rights pursuits on was

One of the goals of the women’s rights movement was ending

How did the governor of Arkansas respond when nine African American students tried to attend the previously all-white high school in Little Rock?

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What kind of protest did the American Indian Movement hold in the late 1960s?

Which rights does the Americans with Disabilities Act guarantee? Check all that apply.

White supremacists reacted to civil rights protests in Birmingham by

Both the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act

Read this quotation from President Kennedy about James Meredith’s stance.This is as it should be, for our Nation is founded on the principle that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.–Address on the situation at the University of Mississippi, John F. Kennedy