Deck 3

Question 1

Explain the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

Answer 1

Overturned the ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson - established that separate was not equal. It was rejected at the state level by Delaware, South Carolina, and Virginia

Question 2

Who was Thurgood Marshall and why was he important in the human rights struggle?

Answer 2

Chief lawyer for the NAACP and first African American Supreme Court Judge

Question 3

Explain Brown II

Answer 3

Gave schools the right to decide how fast to integrate schools.

Question 4

Why was Brown v Board of Education different from Sweatt v Painter and McLaurin v Oklahoma

Answer 4

it dealt with elementary ed instead of higher ed

Question 5

What is the significance of Central High School in Little Rock in terms of black history?

Answer 5

The Little Rock 9 who were supposed to go to high school there were denied. This forced the desegregation of schools and drew media attention to the civil rights movement.

Question 6

How did schools avoid desegregation?

Answer 6

refused to, private schools were set up for only whites, whites left the area called “white flight”

Question 7

What happpened in theGreen v County Board of New Kent County in 1963?

Answer 7

Dealt with freedom of choice. County Board argued that Brown II did not constitute with the school boards responsibility

Question 8

What was the black studies movement?

Answer 8

Blacks demanded college black history courses in schools.

Question 9

What was the problem with desegregation of schools according to the readings?

Answer 9

Led to new forms of segregation like tracking. Did not provide equity. Did not involve blacks and define it.

Question 10

How did the Regents of the University of California v Bakke affect black college students?

Answer 10

It was a quota system for minorites and it was illegal so other cali schools stopped affirmative action.

Question 11

According to the article, how are schools defined?

Answer 11

As a social system because they are made of tasks and individuals which creates an organization

Question 12

What is meant by the external environment

Answer 12

The classroom environment that students see each day. Parents and Regents are examples

Question 13

What is meant by the internal environment?

Answer 13

The feeling of the students about learning and how fair they felt the schools were on the inside. Teachers are an example

Question 14

Explain what does the “culture” of a school mean?

Answer 14

How schools behave and how the environment functions.

Question 15

Explain curriculum and why it is considered to be political?

Answer 15

Political because they are based on human decisions about what will be taught.

Question 16

What is meant by the hidden curriculum?

Answer 16

Things that are chosen not to be taught like the underlying meanings of the curriculum.

Question 17

What is the Bell Curve?

Answer 17

Controversial theory that tried to justify racism through intelligence.

Question 18

What is affirmative action?

Answer 18

An attempt to level the playing field and give a slight advantage to women and minorities.

Question 19

Explain affirmative action policies that were instituted in 1964, especially the provisions of Title VI.

Answer 19

Response to 1964 Civil rights act and it began as a plan to equalize education.

Question 20

What does the legislation “No child left behind” provide for?

Answer 20

The reauthorization of the ESEA and provided for charter schools, testing every year for AYP, school vouchers.

Question 21

What were the five concerns in the interview with the principal in the article?

Answer 21

lack of ethnical education, parental involvement, lack of funding, technology, role in politics.

Question 22

Explain the difference between the Afrocentric Curriculum and the Multicultural Curriculum.

Answer 22

Afrocentric amended school curriculum cultural imbalance whereas multicultural curriculum prepared and promoted diversity in the environment.

Question 23

What types of schools have been established because of the frustration of African Americans at the schooling system?

Answer 23

Independent black schools and private religious schools.

Question 24

What is the United Negro College Fund (UNCF)?

Answer 24

A scholarship program for black students set up in 1944 to enhance education in HBCUs. It provides technical assistant and aides to HBCUs.

Question 25

What is redlining?

Answer 25

Restricting mortgages in certain areas or the practice of denying fincancial services for specific groups of people.

Question 26

What are some ways in which blacks still face economic or social inequality?

Answer 26

unfair laws like possession of drugs consequences much worse for minorities, police brutality, racial profiling

Question 27

Got the Little Rock 9 ready for school on their first day.

Answer 27

Daisy Bates

Question 28

how many civil rights acts were passed in the 1800s?

Answer 28

four

Question 29

how many civil rights acts were passed during the 1900s?

Answer 29

three

Question 30

Lawyer who worked for the NAACP on the Brown v Board of Education case?

Answer 30

Thurgood Marshall

Question 31

First African American member of the Supreme Court?

Answer 31

Thurgood Marshall

Question 32

The Civil Rights Act of blank was known as the Fair Housing Act

Answer 32

1968

Question 33

In this year, President JFK introduced the term blank

Answer 33

1961, affirmative action

Question 34

In this case in this year it was ruled that a percentage of city contracts could not be set aside for minorites.

Answer 34

Croson v Richmond in 1989

Question 35

In these cases in this year, white students claimed that their civil rights had been violated by the university’s point system used for entrance to undergraduate school and law school. They claimed that the system gave African Americans an unearned advantage and violated their rights.

Answer 35

Gratz and Grutter v. Bollinger in 2003