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 newspaper editor.

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.

   b Mississippi v. President Lyndon B. Johnson

   c Plessy v. Ferguson.

   d NAACP v. Kansas

4. On June 21, Edgar Ray Killen was convicted of felony manslaughter for

   a abducting 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 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 for the...