In the 1950s, Jim Crow Laws in Many Parts of the United

question 12

Multiple Choice

In the 1950s, Jim Crow laws in many parts of the United States created a caste system of legal inequality. White Americans and black Americans had to live by different and inherently unfair rules and members of the civil rights movement held protests, sit-ins, and marches to oppose this legal inequality that eventually resulted in the Civil Rights Act, which eliminated much of the legal inequality in the country. This is an example of a:

• A) cause célèbre.
• B) public enterprise.
• C) social movement.
• D) rights initiative.
• E) crusade.