Civil Rights - 1954-60

Question 1

What does CORE stand for?

Answer 1

Congress of Racial Equality

Question 2

What does RCNL stand for?

Answer 2

Regional Council of Negro Leadership

Question 3

What does NAACP stand for?

Answer 3

National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People

Question 4

What was the main principle of Plessy vs Ferguson (1896)?

Answer 4

“Separate but equal”

Question 5

What laws enforced segregation in the South?

Answer 5

Jim Crow laws

Question 6

How many black soldiers fought in segregated units in WW2?

Answer 6

1 million

Question 7

What percentage of black people were registered to vote in South USA in 1956?

Answer 7

20%

Question 8

How many people attended the Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL) rallies in the 1950s?

Answer 8

10, 000 people

Question 9

How many cases did the NAACP combine to take to the Supreme Court in ‘Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas’?

Answer 9

Five

Question 10

What was the name of the anti-segregation judge who became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during ‘Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas’?

Answer 10

Earl Warren

Question 11

When did the Supreme Court say schools ruled Plessy unconstitutional and told schools to desegregate?

Answer 11

17th May 1954

Question 12

How many school districts had desegregated by 1957?

Answer 12

723

Question 13

Which governor ordered 250 state troops to stop black students from entering Little Rock school?

Answer 13

Governor Faubus

Question 14

What percentage of black people who used the bus stopped using them for 381 days in protest of segregation of the buses in 1955-56?

Answer 14

90%

Question 15

What percentage of black people who used the bus stopped using them for 381 days in protest of segregation of the buses in 1955-56?

Answer 15

90%

Question 16

What organisation was set up to improve the lives of blacks and support the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Answer 16

The Montgomery Improvement Association

Question 17

How many members of the MIA were arrested in February 1956 and put on trial?

Answer 17

89 members

Question 18

What 2 leaders of the MIA became leaders of the Southern Christian Leadership Council?

Answer 18

1) Martin Luther King
2) Ralph Abernathy

Question 19

What happened in Mississippi in 1955?

Answer 19

2 black men who attempted to vote were murdered by the KKK, but the authorities wrote their shooting off as a car accident and nobody was arrested

Question 20

What was the name of the political group which had left the Democrats in opposition to a civil rights bill for the military that President Truman attempted to introduce in 1948?

Answer 20

The Dixiecrats

Question 21

What, according to some accounts, did Emmett Till do to Roy Bryant’s wife, Carolyn?

Answer 21

Wolf-whistle at her

Question 22

How much were Roy Bryant and his half-brother paid to admit their guilt in a magazine article about Emmett Till’s murder?

Answer 22

$3500

Question 23

What leaflet did the NAACP produce after the murder of Emmett Till?

Answer 23

“M is for Mississippi and Murder”