Justice, delayed.1. The idea for Virginia's scholarship program a originated in Virginia's General Assembly. b was first promoted by Virginia's Governor. c is the product of a Lawsuit filed by those who had been denied an education when public schools were shut down in 1959. d was initiated by a Prince Edward County Prince Edward County may refer to:
2. Which of the following tactics did Prince Edward County officials employ in their school, shutdown? a Declaring the schools to be unsafe. b Passing a law declaring racially integrated schools to be unconstitutional. c Withdrawing all financial support for the public schools. d Transferring control of the schools from the county to the state. 3. In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial, segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. This landmark civil rights case is known as a Brown v. Board of Education Brown v. Board of Education (of Topeka) (1954) U.S. Supreme Court case in which the court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. . b Mississippi v. President Lyndon B. Johnson c Plessy v. Ferguson Plessy v. Ferguson, case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1896. The court upheld an 1890 Louisiana statute mandating racially segregated but equal railroad carriages, ruling that the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth amendment to the U.S. . d NAACP NAACP in full National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Oldest and largest U.S. civil rights organization. It was founded in 1909 to secure political, educational, social, and economic equality for African Americans; W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. v. Kansas 4. On June 21, Edgar Ray Killen Edgar Ray "Preacher" Killen (born 17 January 1925) is an American former Ku Klux Klan organizer who conspired to kill several civil rights activists in 1964. He was found guilty of three counts of manslaughter on June 21 2005, the forty-first anniversary of the crime. was convicted of felony manslaughter for a abducting ab·duct tr.v. ab·duct·ed, ab·duct·ing, ab·ducts 1. To carry off by force; kidnap. 2. Physiology To draw away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part or limb. and kilting 14-year-old Emmett Till, in 1955. b his rote in the 1064 murders of three civil rights workers who were helping to register black voters in Mississippi. c firebombing Firebombing is a bombing technique designed to damage a target, generally an urban area, through the use of fire from a incendiary device, rather than from the blast effect of large bombs. an African-American church in Selma, Ala. d organizing a lynch mob to go after civil. rights workers who were escorting black students to an all-white high school. 5. Earlier this year, lynching victims and their descendants received a formal, apology from a Virginia's General Assembly. b the U.S. Senate. c Prince Edward County, Va. d President George W. Bush. IN-DEPTH QUESTIONS 1. The Virginia scholarship program may add fuel to a national debate about the Legacy of slavery. Some people support reparations reparations, payments or other compensation offered as an indemnity for loss or damage. Although the term is used to cover payments made to Holocaust survivors and to Japanese Americans interned during World War II in so-called relocation camps (and used as well to for the descendants of staves. Explain why you agree or disagree with this proposal. If you support reparations for descendants of slaves, what form do you think such reparations should take? 2. Many Americans believe that racial discrimination remains a problem in this country, even though it is against the taw. Explain why you agree or disagree. 1. [d] was initiated by a Prince Edward County newspaper editor. 2. [c] withdrawing all financial, support for the public schools, 3. [a] Brown v. Board of Education. 4. [b] his role in the 1964 murders of three civil, rights workers who were helping to register black voters in Mississippi. 5. [b] the U.S. Senate, |
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