1950s and 1960s Civil Rights Flashcards
Give an example of segregation within society in the 50s and 60s
Any from:-
- Cafe
-Busses
- Billard Hall
- Jobs
- Cabins
- Toilets
- Water pumps
- Police station
- Restuarant
- Landurt
- Cinmea
- Train station
What year was the Brown v. Topeka Board of Education?
1954
Give a summary of the Brown v. Topeka Board of Education?
Linda Brown’s father had to walk over a dangerous railway line to go to a “black only school” even though a “white” school was nearby. Linda Brown’s father lost the case before it was put to the Supreme Court, and this time, they won. Chief Justice Earl even pushed the idea.
What year was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
1955-1956
Give a summary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refused to move seats on a bus for a white man. She was arrested and this sparked a boycott of buses across the USA. Because of the Boycott, bus companies lost 65%.
What year was the Little Rock Nine?
1975
What year were the sit-ins?
1960
What year were the Freedom Rides?
1960
What year were the protests of Martin Luther King Jr
1963
Give a summary of the Little Rock Nine.
Arkansas was slow at integration in schools, but the Supreme Court ordered nine black students to go to school in a previously all black school. Fabus ordered federal troops to stop them from going to school. Eisenhower sent 1100 paratroopers to protect the students and escort them to and from school.
Give a summary of the sit-ins
SNCC students sat in the white-only cafe seats and refused to leave. Food and drinks were thrown at them, as well as they were shown verbal abuse. This led to desegregation in many public places
Give a summary of the Freedom Rides
CORE activists rode on buses to highlight where the law wasn’t being obeyed. They faced the worst violence and spent time in jail.
Give a summary of protests and Martin Luther King
In 1963, Martin Luther King staged the largest protest with over 200,00 African Americans marched on Washington. This was were the “I have a dream speech’ happened.
What date was Rosa Parks arrested?
1st December 1955
Why didn’t Malcolm X like MLK?
He thought MLK, after MLK got the Nobel Peace Prize, he gave up
Who was Malcolm X?
- Born in 1925
- Named Malcolm Little
- His dad was killed at 6
- Lived in poverty
- When in prison became Muslim
Who were the Black Panthers?
- 2000-membered political group
- They believed that Black African Americans should arm themselves
- They killed nine police officers
When was the Mexico Olympics?
1968
What was so significant about the 1968 Mexico Olympics?
The Track team won a gold and a silver medal. When on the podium, they both raised their hands and wore black gloves for the black power movement. They also wore beads around their neck. To represent poverty, they were also shoeless.
When was the Civil Rights Act?
1964
When was the Voting Rights Act?
1955
Summarise MLK Assassination
- Shot in Tennessee
- officers chased three white men
- Bullet ‘exploded in his face’
- On a balcony
- Caused violence
- Gun found a block away
Name two parts of the 1968 Civil Rights Act
Any two from:-
-You could no longer refuse to sell or rent a house to someone based on race or colour
- You coilf no longer advertise the sale or rental of a property and to rce or colour
- You could neither threaten nor intimidate someone living in the rented or bought house.
Give details about Emmet Till (3)
- On August 28th 1955 Emmet till was murdered for allegedly flirting with a w white women four days earlier
- Emmet was made to carry 75 pound cotton gin fan to the bank and was ordered to remove his clothes
- Two men beat him to death, shot him, tortured him and threw his body into the river
- 70 years later the women said ‘Nothing that boy did could ever justify what happened to him”
- In Marchh of 2022 president Joe Biden passed the Emmet Till antilynching act
