civil rights

Question 1

who was the mother of the civil rights movement

Answer 1

rosa parks

Question 2

what started the civil rights movement

Answer 2

rosa parks’ bus boycott

Question 3

grass roots movement

Answer 3

a movement that starts at a low level, something that happens organically within a community, not something started in government nor a top down approach

Question 4

why was the 50’s the right time to start the civil rights movement

Answer 4

30s was the depression
40s was the war
50s was economic prosperity

Question 5

4t’s

Answer 5

1. television
   - witness the protests and the inequity, blacks watching popular white shows and going hey we don’t got that
2. teenagers
   - the next generation of new pescpatives, open minded people, more liberal, and more free time and less at stake
3. talent
   - we’ve got all these people like mlk, rosa parks, little rock 9, ed nixon, thurgood marshall
4. truman
   - democrat, integrates military with executive order because of thoughts of ww2 vets

Question 6

why was elvis important

Answer 6

many teenagers went to his concerts and they were integrated, both blacks and whites were allowed to go and they didn’t have to stay in separate areas

Question 7

thurgood marshall

Answer 7

• head lawyer for naacp
• defend blacks imprisoned for protesting
• first black supreme court justice

Question 8

people in govt who helped

Answer 8

(all democrats)
- john f kennedy
- robert f kennedy
- lindon b johnson
- truman

Question 9

reconstruction amendments

Answer 9

13, 14, 15

Question 10

13th amendment

Answer 10

slavery and involuntary servitude are illegal except for punishment as a crime

Question 11

14th amendment

Answer 11

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws

Question 12

15th amendment

Answer 12

guaranteed African-American men the right to vote. Almost immediately after ratification, African Americans began to take part in running for office and voting.

Question 13

dred scott vs. sandford (1857)

Answer 13

he said living in free territory should make him a free slave, but slaves aren’t people they have no rights, they are property
invalidates missouri compromise

Question 14

black codes

Answer 14

jim crow laws are a form of legal segregation

Question 15

plessy vs ferguson 1896

Answer 15

separate but equal
he’s 1/16th black and buys a ticket in the white section and they say no and arrest him

supreme court said separe car act was perfectly legal, it was a way to sidestep the 14th amendment

Question 16

jim crow laws

Answer 16

affected every aspect of daily life
state laws that legalized segregation and disenfranchisement based on race –> sidestepping the 14th

Question 17

what is etiquette

Answer 17

expected behavior in a certain setting, unspoken social norms

Question 18

lynching

Answer 18

an unlawful public murder, often by hanging, carried out by angry mobs

white people used lynchings to control and terrorize black people mostly in the south

Question 19

what were lynchings to kkk

Answer 19

public spectacles that celebrated and preserved white supremacy

Question 20

what sparked the civil rights movement

Answer 20

murder of emmett till

Question 21

brown vs board of ed

Answer 21

separate school systems for Black students and white students were inherently unequal, and a violation of the “Equal Protection Clause” of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

brown won

Question 22

how was brown vs board of ed outcome bad

Answer 22

white people felt they were losing control so hiyah killed emmett till

Question 23

how did they fund the boycott

Answer 23

dances on wednesdays

Question 24

they were involved in nonviolent protests but met with

Answer 24

violence

Question 25

who chaperoned the kids

Answer 25

rosa parks

Question 26

did mlk believe in violence

Answer 26

no

Question 27

people were mad at the crm activists so they

Answer 27

sent death threats, bombed their houses and churches

Question 28

kkk put dynamite in mlk's house and blew it up so blacks

Answer 28

came to his house with weapons to defend it and he was like we will rise above and not meet them with violence, then they started singing

Question 29

colvette colban

Answer 29

did the same thing as rosa parks but she was an unwed mother so that looks bad for the movement

Question 30

what was important to the civil rights movement

Answer 30

song

Question 31

when was the eisenhower administration

Answer 31

1953-61

Question 32

did eisenhower support civil rights

Answer 32

nope, he was a gradualist

Question 33

what party was eisenhower

Answer 33

republican but liked by both sides

Question 34

earl warren

Answer 34

chief justice appointed by eisenhower, even though he's a democrat becomes eisenhower's biggest regret because he votes against him

Question 35

the warren court...

Answer 35

addressed issues ignored by eisenhower and congress a very influential court

Question 36

naacp

Answer 36

national association for the advancement of colored peoples

Question 37

where the attention focused in the late 40s

Answer 37

desegregation of schools

Question 38

how did they first combat desegregation of schools

Answer 38

encouraged black parents to attempt to enroll their children in public schools but requests were denied because schools were controlled by the states

Question 39

requests for black enrollment in public schools was denied. what was the result

Answer 39

class action lawsuit was filed by naacp

Question 40

stare decisis

Answer 40

let the decision stand

Question 41

precedent

Answer 41

action/decision regarded as an example or guide for everything else to follow

Question 42

what's odd about brown vs boe

Answer 42

the precedent from plessy vs ferguson doesnt hold

Question 43

majority opinion

Answer 43

5 or more justices

Question 44

minority opinion

Answer 44

dissenting opinion

Question 45

concurring opinion

Answer 45

agree with the majority but for different reasons

Question 46

clark doll study

Answer 46

1939 study to evaluate the self esteem of african american children - done through preference for white or brown dolls

Question 47

amicus curiae

Answer 47

friend of the court

Question 48

declaration of constitutional principles

Answer 48

pledged resistance to brown vs boe passed by southern senators and congressmen

Question 49

were classrooms integrated immediately

Answer 49

no. 10 years after the decision only 2 percent of elgible blacks were in integrated classrooms

Question 50

how did eisenhower respond to brown vs boe

Answer 50

refused to issue a public statement

Question 51

little rock 9

Answer 51

9 black students, hand picked so there wouldn't be any problems ernest green, elizabeth eckford, minnie jean brown

Question 52

states did not follow integration

Answer 52

resisted brown case and shut down alabama naacp

Question 53

autherine lucy

Answer 53

black female who attended university of alabama but the school suspended her "for her own safety" because a mob protested her attendence she sued the school and won but the school just expelled her

Question 54

anti-integration chant

Answer 54

2,4,6,8 we don't want to integrate

Question 55

what did autherine lucy's case show

Answer 55

showed whites specifically that violence and riots were the answer to segregation

Question 56

why did faubus mobolize the state national guard

Answer 56

to prevent the little rock 9 from going to school

Question 57

are schools under state or federal power

Answer 57

state but supremacy clause

Question 58

supremacy clause

Answer 58

the Constitution and federal laws (of the types listed in the first part of the Clause) take priority over any conflicting rules of state law

Question 59

how did people react to the little rock 9

Answer 59

there were mobs to prevent the kids from going to school, attacking all black people they saw around them

Question 60

how did eisenhower react to little rock 9

Answer 60

sent in paratroopers to escort each kid to school, and each kid was assigned their own soldier