3 ways African Americans were kept from voting in the

South…

1. Fees

2. Threats of Violence

3. Literacy Tests

1. A U.S. Senator elected at the general election in November takes office the following year on what day?

2. Does enumeration affect the income tax levied on citizens in various states?

3. To serve as President of the United States, a person must have attained how many years?

4. If no candidate for President receives a majority of the electoral vote, who decides who will become President?

5. Of the original 13 states, the one with the largest representation in the first Congress was?

1. January 3rd

2. Yes

3. 35 years

4. House of Representatives

5. Virginia

May 1896 – Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case ‘Separate but Equal’ ruled constitutional. (Schools can be segregated as long as they are equal)

Dec. 1946 – Pres. Truman establishes Committee on Civil Rights

1948 – Pres. Truman issues two executive orders

1. Banned Segregation in the military

2. Banned racial discrimination in hiring federal employees

Important Court Cases

Plessy v. Ferguson – 1896

Sweatt v. Painter Ruled that separate facilities created were not

equal. Ordered University of Texas Law School to admit Sweatt.

Brown v. Board of education (banned segregation in public schools) Linda Brown & 19 other students from Topeka, KS. Unanimous Decision by Supreme Court

Dec. 1 1955- Dec. 20 1956

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Rosa Parks – Refuses to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Al. public bus.

Her courageous effort sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott (African-Americans boycotting the buses for 1year and 19 days)

The boycott was led by a young 26 y/o Baptist minister named Martin Luther King Jr.

Little Rock Nine – The first African American students to be integrated into public schools in the state of Arkansas

(Central High School)