Jim Crow laws Quiz - 41 Trivia Questions!

Examine the dark history of racial segregation in the United States with this quiz on the Jim Crow laws, which enforced racial discrimination and inequality for decades.

In 1890, which US state passed a law requiring separate accommodations for black and white passengers on railroads?

Mississippi
New York
Louisiana
Alabama

Who was the first US President born in the South after the Civil War?

President Jefferson
President William Howard Taft
Jefferson
Woodrow Wilson

In which US state is the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia?

Michigan
Virginia
Tennessee
South Carolina

Which American cartoonist created the 'Jim Crow' caricature in 1904?

William S. Burroughs
George Washington
John T. McCutcheon
John L. Sullivan

What was the name of the US Supreme Court case that declared anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional?

Virginia v. Loving
The Virginia Lottery
Loving v. Virginia
Virginia v. Maryland

In which US state did a campaign for racial purity take place between 1922 and 1930?

New York
Alabama
Mississippi
Virginia

Which US congressman proposed the introduction of 'Jim Crow' streetcars in Washington DC in 1908?

James Madison
James Thomas Heflin
Robert E. Lee
George Washington

Which US President issued Executive Order 9981, ending racial segregation in the armed forces?

George Washington
John F. Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
Harry S. Truman

Who was the first black person to play in Major League Baseball?

George Washington
Roger Maris
Hank Aaron
Jackie Robinson

What was the name of the US Supreme Court case that upheld desegregation busing in 1971?

Busing
Gragg v. Board of Education
Swann
The Supreme Court case of Swann v. City of New York

In which US state did segregated water fountains and restrooms become legal in the 1920's?

Alabama
Mississippi
Tennessee
Texas

In 1954, the US Supreme Court declared school segregation unconstitutional in what landmark case?

Federal Bureau of Investigation v. Virginia
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Topeka Board of Education

In 1954, the US Supreme Court ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional, in what landmark case?

The Boy Scouts of America
Brown v. Board of Education
The Equal Employment Opportunity Act
Brown v. City of New York

Who was the governor of Alabama at the time of the civil rights movement?

Martin Luther King, Jr.
George Wallace
James Brown
Martin Luther King Jr.

What was the name of the Supreme Court case that upheld Jim Crow laws in the U.S.A.?

Plessy vs. Ferguson
The Brown vs. Board of Education
Martin Luther King Jr.
Jefferson v. Alabama

Which was the first state in the USA to disenfranchise most black people?

Florida
Mississippi
Tennessee
New York

In which US state would you find a 'coloured' drinking fountain?

Virginia
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Tennessee

In 1913, US President Woodrow Wilson presided over the 'Peace Jubilee' at which battlefield?

The Appomattox Court House
The Wilderness
Gettysburg
Battle of Appomattox

In 2013, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Voting Rights Act was unconstitutional in which US county?

Montgomery County
Shelby County
Jackson County
Jefferson County

In which US city did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her bus seat to a white man in 1955?

Atlanta
Montgomery
Minneapolis
Detroit

Who was the lawyer for the NAACP in the 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas?

Robert Moses
John F. Kennedy
Thurgood Marshall
George Washington

What was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People better known as?

SNAP
National Association for the Advancement of Women
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP

Which amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery?

Twenty-seventh Amendment
Thirteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment

Who is the author of 'Learning to Win: Sports, Education and Social Change in twentieth-century North Carolina'?

Pamela Grundy
Nancy Allen
Mary Ann Rowe
John H. Johnson

Who was the first US Supreme Court Justice to use the word 'racism'?

John Roberts
Thomas Jefferson
Robert Bork
Frank Murphy

In the Jim Crow South, what field did blacks work in?

Education
Agriculture
Medicine
Labor

In which US city did Bull Connor use billy clubs and water hoses to disperse civil rights protesters?

Birmingham
Orlando
Miami
Atlanta

What was the name of the legendary sports spectacle that was never televised?

The Super Bowl
Texas Western
Super Bowl
Grand Slam

What was the name of the white supremacist paramilitary group in the US South during the Reconstruction Era?

Ku Klux Klan
Southerners
The American White Supremacy
National Guard

Which US law was passed in 1875 by Charles Sumner and Benjamin F Butler?

Federal Reserve
Civil Rights Act
Abolition of the Slave Trade
The Fourteenth Amendment

"Who wrote ""Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy and the Rise of Jim Crow""?"

George Washington
The Washington Post
Charles Johnson
Henry Louis, Jr

In which US state was the 'Eight Box Law' passed in 1892?

California
New York
South Carolina
Wisconsin

"What sport was ""integrated"" by Jim Crow?"

Basketball
Swimming
Soccer
Tennis

What name was given to the laws that enforced racial segregation in the US?

The Fourteenth Amendment
Jim Crow
Race Relations Act
Freedom Ride

What was abolished in the US South after the Civil War?

Slavery
Abolition
The Federal government
The Civil War

What was the name given to the post-Civil War era in the US when blacks were given the vote and public schools were established?

Civil rights
The Civil War
The American Civil War
Reconstruction

Which US President signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Ronald Reagan
Richard Nixon
Harry S. Truman
Lyndon B. Johnson

Which US university was known as Dixie until it was desegregated in 1972?

University of Florida
University of Southern California
The University of Virginia
University of Mississippi

"What was the ""Jim Crow"" law meant to enforce?"

Segregation
The Civil Rights Movement
Protection
Disparity

"""There are only white champions in Texas"", was a slogan for what sport?"

Boxing
Tennis
Swimming
Basketball

What was the name of the decade in the 20th century when college football was slouching to a new expediency?

The 1930s
World War II
Depression
The 1950s
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