Civil Rights

Question 1

What does NAACP stand for?

Answer 1

Narional Assembly for the Advancement of Coloured People - 1909

Question 2

What does CORE stand for?

Answer 2

Congress of Racial Equaity, 1942

Question 3

When was the Plessy vs. Ferguson?

Answer 3

1896

Question 4

What does WPC stand for?

Answer 4

Woman’s Political Council, 1946

Question 5

What does MIA stand for?

Answer 5

Montogmery Improvement Association, 1955

Question 6

When did the Greensboro sit in start?

Answer 6

1st February 1960

Question 7

When did the Supreme Court call for desegregation ‘with all delibarate speed’?

Answer 7

May 1955

Question 8

When was Emmett Till murdered?

Answer 8

August 1955, Mississippi

Question 9

When did the Supreme Court rule that life had changed and that ‘seperate but equal’ didn’t work?

Answer 9

17 May 1954

Question 10

Short term evidence that Brown vs Topeka was a success:

Answer 10

•  Sparked of many desegregation campaigns, many won legal victories.
• By 1957 (school year) 723 school districts had been desegregated.

Question 11

Short term evidence that Brown vs Topeka was not a success:

Answer 11

• Extreme white backlash began, Black Monday.
• Black children who went to integrated schools were targets of threats + violence.
• Deep South school boards make plans to desegregate schools, but do nothing.
• Setting up of the White Citizens Council (WCC) in July 1954.
• KKK membership grew.
• Black people felt worse after.

Question 12

Long term evidence that Brown vs Topeka was a success:

Answer 12

• Greater awareness of civil rights issues.
• Plessy overturned, couldn’t be used to block desegregation laws.
• Brown could be used in cases to desegragate places.

Question 13

Long term evidence that Brown vs Topeka was not a success:

Answer 13

• Black students faced to hostilitys whilst integrating into ‘white’ schools.
• Lost good education + support of good ‘black shools’
• NACCO + other civil rights groups membership fell.
• White people left areas with large black communities.
• Black teachers lost their jobs when schools integrated.
• Others working in integrated school faced hostility’s from parents, students and staff (all white).
• South did desegragate but 5 Deep South stTes in 1960 were still segregated.

Question 14

How many black students applied to Little Rock and hompw many got in?

Answer 14

75 applied and 25 were accepeted

Question 15

Governor of Arkansas during Little Rock

Answer 15

Orval Faubus