2.5 enforcing school segregation

Question 1

Reactions to brown ruling

Answer 1

Governors of south don’t enforce integration

Question 2

Southern Manifesto

Answer 2

senator signed manifesto to say they believed Brown was an abuse of Supreme courts powers

Question 3

President Eisenhower

Answer 3

Didn’t want to lose popularity for integration

Question 4

Little Rock High school

Answer 4

accepts 25 black students to join
only 9 join
Orville Faubus tries to stop black people joining
black people harassed and treated badly

Question 5

Little Rock Nine

Answer 5

surrounded by angry mob of white people on first day of school
stopped by state troops

Question 6

What is Governor Orville Faubus reasoning

Answer 6

blames it on state rights instead of racism

Question 7

Government response

Answer 7

Eisenhower tried to persuade Orville to let black people into the school
Federal judge started legal proceedings
Police let black people in

Question 8

Supreme Court response

Answer 8

Faubus closes all schools in Little Rock
SC stood by brown ruling

Question 9

Significance of events at Little Rock

Answer 9

Distinguishes attitudes of south compared to North
Shocking international media coverage
1st forced integration
first time and elected official stood up for civil rights