1950's Civil Rights

Question 1

What Laws from the 1870’s introduced segregation

Answer 1

Jim Crow Laws

Question 2

What was the name for the splitting up of public facilities between white and black people

Answer 2

segregation

Question 3

What are some of the examples of public facilities that were segregated

Answer 3

restaurants, hospitals, schools, parks, buses, drinking fountains, waiting rooms, cinemas, shops, hotels, etc.

Question 4

What was the name of the supreme court case that said school segregation was legal as long as education was “Separate but Equal” (it wasn’t)

Answer 4

1896 - Plessey vs Fergusson

Question 5

What Amendment allowed all US citizens the right to vote regardless of their race or skin colour

Answer 5

15th Amendment

Question 6

What did Southern states use to stop black people from registering to vote

Answer 6

Literacy tests - with impossible questions such as “how many bubbles in a bar of soap?”

Question 7

what was CORE

Answer 7

-Congress of Racial Equality
-Non-violent protest group who organised sit-ins in segregated facilities like cinemas and restaurants, which led to the end of segregation in some Northern cities
-Primarily based in the North

Question 8

what was NAACP

Answer 8

National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People

Question 9

When was the NAACP formed

Answer 9

1909

Question 10

By 1946, how many members did NAACP have

Answer 10

600,000

Question 11

What supreme court case ruled that segregation on schools was illegal

Answer 11

Brown Vs. Board Of Education

Question 12

How many of the 9 supreme court judges ruled that segregation in schools was illegal

Answer 12

All of them - a unanimous decision

Question 13

How many black students were attending schools in 1957 that had previously been segregated

Answer 13

300,000

Question 14

What did some white people do to oppose desegregation in schools

Answer 14

They set up the White Citizen’s Council. 100 politicians signed the Southern Manifesto

Question 15

What school did 9 black students try to join in 1957 despite the opposition they faced

Answer 15

Little Rock, Arkansas

Question 16

What was the name of the Arkansas Governor who sent the Arkansas National Guard to block the entrance to the school; the students still tried to enter the school even though more than 1000 people blocked the path

Answer 16

Orval Faubus

Question 17

How did the 9 students successfully take their place in the high school

Answer 17

President Eisenhower intervened by sending Federal Soldiers to protect the students for the rest of the year - despite this Orval Faubus closed all schools in Arkansas for the rest of year meaning black and white students had no education. But in 1959, a supreme court case forced the schools to reopen, desegregated.

Question 18

What did Rosa Parks do in December 1955 that made her famous

Answer 18

She refused to give up her seat to a white person on a segregated bus

Question 19

what was the WPC

Answer 19

Women’s Political Coucil

Question 20

who was the leader of the WPC

Answer 20

Jo Ann Robinson

Question 21

On the 5th December, how many black people were involved in a bus boycott set up by the WPC

Answer 21

20,000

Question 22

What was the name of the organisation that set up the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 22

MIA (Montgomery Improvement Association)

Question 23

How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last

Answer 23

381 days (5th December 1955—- 20th December 1956)

Question 24

What did the MIA set up to help black people cope with buses in montgomery

Answer 24

car pooling

Question 25

When was MLK’s home bombed with his wife and baby inside, in white backlash from the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 25

JAN 1956

Question 26

How many MIA members were arrested in Feb 1956, including MLK, in response to the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 26

89

Question 27

What was the name of the supreme court case that ruled, in June 1956, that buses should be desegregated

Answer 27

Browder vs. Gayle

Question 28

Why was the murder of Emmett Till in 1955 so important

Answer 28

His mother had an open coffin funeral so the public could see how badly he was attacked and the physical abuse that black people had to deal with

Question 29

what did the KKK do to oppose rights for black people

Answer 29

-Lynching
-Beatings
-feather and tar

Question 30

What was the name of southern politicians in the democratic party who opposed civil rights

Answer 30

dixiecrats

Question 31

How did Senator Thurmond try to stop the 1957 civil rights act from passing

Answer 31

Filibuster - He spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes non stop to try and stop the vote from passing