Civil Rights Quiz Ethnic Studies Question and answers already passed 2024/2025
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Civil Rights Quiz Ethnic Studies Question and answers already passed 2024/2025 Civil Rights Quiz Ethnic Studies
Why did the railroad company take part in having Homer Plessy challenge providing separate train cars for different races? - correct answer Since it cost them a lot of money to cha...
Civil Rights Quiz Ethnic Studies
Why did the railroad company take part in having Homer Plessy challenge
providing separate train cars for different races? - correct answer ✔Since it
cost them a lot of money to change cars, and it would be easier to have
everyone in the same car
Why was Homer Plessy selected to be the "test case" for this legal challenge?
- correct answer ✔Since his complexion made him appear to be someone of
the white race
Who cast the sole dissenting vote in Plessy v. Ferguson? - correct answer
✔John Marshall Harlan
What does "separate but equal" mean? - correct answer ✔That separating
people is ok since they are equal
What is De Jure Segregation? - correct answer ✔Separation
enforced/required by law
What is De Facto Segregation? - correct answer ✔Separation by common
understanding and personal choice
When was the Separate Car Act? - correct answer ✔1890
What did the the "Separate Car Act" require of railroads and how were
railroads required to meet that? - correct answer ✔To maintain "equal and
separate" facilities for whites and non-whites with either separate passenger
coaches or partitioned coaches to provide segregated accommodations for
each race
, What were the consequences of violating the Separate Car Act? - correct
answer ✔A fine of $25 or a 20-day jail sentence (which would be a lot more
money/time now)
What was the name of a Civil Rights activist that denounced the Separate Car
Act & what did he do (at first) to challenge the law? - correct answer ✔Albion
Tourgée, he called upon Louisiana blacks and civil rights advocates to
challenge the law, arguing that it violated the 14th Amendment (equal
protection of all citizens under the law)
What did New Orleans' activists organize to challenge the Separate Car Act? -
correct answer ✔The Citizens' Committee
What did Tourgée and the Citizens' Committee plan to do to challenge the law
(didn't work)? - correct answer ✔To have a pre-determined person break the
segregation law, ensuring he be arrested, then challenge the arrest in the
courts
What other states passed railroad segregation laws in 1891 and what did
Mississippi do around that time? - correct answer ✔Alabama, Kentucky,
Arkansas, and Georgia; Mississippi established literacy and "understanding"
tests to be required to vote
Why was Homer Plessy selected to act as the plaintiff in the case? - correct
answer ✔Since he was light-skinned enough to pass for white board a train in
New Orleans and sit in the white car, he was one-eighth black and appeared
to be a white man
What did Homer Plessy do when he boarded the "whites only" train; What did
this result in? - correct answer ✔He informed the conductor that he was
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