Civil Rights - 1954-60 Flashcards
What does CORE stand for?
Congress of Racial Equality
What does RCNL stand for?
Regional Council of Negro Leadership
What does NAACP stand for?
National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
What was the main principle of Plessy vs Ferguson (1896)?
“Separate but equal”
What laws enforced segregation in the South?
Jim Crow laws
How many black soldiers fought in segregated units in WW2?
1 million
What percentage of black people were registered to vote in South USA in 1956?
20%
How many people attended the Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL) rallies in the 1950s?
10, 000 people
How many cases did the NAACP combine to take to the Supreme Court in ‘Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas’?
Five
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’?
Earl Warren
When did the Supreme Court say schools ruled Plessy unconstitutional and told schools to desegregate?
17th May 1954
How many school districts had desegregated by 1957?
723
Which governor ordered 250 state troops to stop black students from entering Little Rock school?
Governor Faubus
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?
90%
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?
90%
What organisation was set up to improve the lives of blacks and support the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
The Montgomery Improvement Association
How many members of the MIA were arrested in February 1956 and put on trial?
89 members
What 2 leaders of the MIA became leaders of the Southern Christian Leadership Council?
1) Martin Luther King
2) Ralph Abernathy
What happened in Mississippi in 1955?
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
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?
The Dixiecrats
What, according to some accounts, did Emmett Till do to Roy Bryant’s wife, Carolyn?
Wolf-whistle at her
How much were Roy Bryant and his half-brother paid to admit their guilt in a magazine article about Emmett Till’s murder?
$3500
What leaflet did the NAACP produce after the murder of Emmett Till?
“M is for Mississippi and Murder”
