U.S. History Spring Final Exam Review_2023
U.S. History Spring Final Exam Review_2023 Brown vs. Board of Education (Correct Answer) - • Oliver Brown sued on behalf of his daughter Linda Brown, who lived next door to a white school but was forced to travel far & dangerously to an allblack school • the law suit was to show the undermine of the legality of segregation; it was 5 law-suits grouped together • They did a doll test proving that segregation created feelings of inferiority of blacks • The court case over turned the Plessy vs. Ferguson Court Case Ruling: NO MORE SEPARATE BUT EQUAL Montgomery Bus Boycott (Correct Answer) - • Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus after all the white seats had been filled up. She was arrested and fined • The boycott lasted for 381 days during December 1955- December 1956 • Public buses were boycotted by blacks in Montgomery, they began the boycott on the day of Rosa Parks' court hearing • The boycott was a success because after the 13 month mass protest ended the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation on public buses is UNCONSTITUTIONAL Martin Luther King Jr (Correct Answer) - • Preached tactic of nonviolent civil disobedience: Nonviolent resistance does resist, the goal of nonviolence is redemption and reconciliation, nonviolence seeks to defeat evil not people, nonviolence includes a willingness to accept suffering without retaliation, to accept blows from the opponent without striking back, nonviolence avoids external physical violence and internal violence of spirit, nonviolence is based on the conviction that the universe is on the side of justice • involved in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, March on Washington,
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