Q 01/05

Psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark used which toys in the experiments cited in Brown v. Board?

A) Puppets

B) Marbles

C) Blocks

D) Dolls

Answer · why

D) Dolls

Dolls identical except for skin and hair color were shown to children, and most preferred the white one. The Court cited the research as proof that se...

Q 02/05

Which lawyer argued Brown v. Board and later became the first Black justice on the Supreme Court?

A) Clarence Thomas

B) Jack Greenberg

C) Thurgood Marshall

D) Spottswood Robinson

Answer · why

C) Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall won 29 of the 32 cases he argued before the Supreme Court as a movement lawyer, then joined the bench himself in 1967.

Q 03/05

Which six-year-old needed a federal escort into a formerly all-white New Orleans school in 1960?

A) Ruby Bridges

B) Elizabeth Eckford

C) Claudette Colvin

D) Autherine Lucy

Answer · why

A) Ruby Bridges

Ruby Bridges spent that year as the only child in her class, taught alone by the one teacher who agreed to have her after white parents pulled their c...

Q 04/05

The 1896 ruling that Brown v. Board rejected had approved racial separation in which setting?

A) Public schools

B) City parks

C) Train cars

D) Hospital wards

Answer · why

C) Train cars

Train cars were the issue: a New Orleans man was arrested in 1892 after deliberately taking a seat in a whites-only coach, in a test case local activi...

Q 05/05

Brown v. Board began when thirteen parents sued the school board of which Kansas city?

A) Wichita

B) Topeka

C) Dodge City

D) Lawrence

Answer · why

B) Topeka

Topeka's school district now works from a building named for McKinley Burnett, the local activist who organized the lawsuit against it.