Civil Rights In America

Question 1

Jim Crow laws

Answer 1

Originated in 1887 to 1891, set of discriminatory laws separating whites and blacks

Represented by the character Jim Crow who mocked African Americans

Question 2

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 2

Seperate but equal

Plessy challenged the legality of the Jim Crow laws on trains but was found guilty

The segregation laws became stronger as the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal as the facilities were equal

Question 3

Examples of Jim Crow laws

Answer 3

White female nurses weren’t to work in rooms with black men - Alabama
Coloured barbers couldn’t cut hair of white girls or women - Georgia
Second hand textbooks can’t be exchanged between races - North Carolina

Question 4

The KKK

Answer 4

White supremacy, formed after the civil war in 1865 but was reborn in 1915 during ww1 and grew more powerful after ww2

Involved violent opposition eg lynching, beatings and burning houses

Question 5

The NAACP

Answer 5

National association for the advancement of coloured people - activist group who fought for African rights

Question 6

Bus boycotts

Answer 6

Beginning with rosa parks refusal to move for a white passenger on a train, there was a 13 month African American boycott of the buses where they refused to take public transport and as a result the bus company nearly went broke

Desegregation of public transport then occurred in 1956

Question 7

Brown v. The board of education

Answer 7

Thurgood Marshall a high profile African lawyer who worked with the NAACP went to court in 1951 to protest for desegregated education

Two dolls, which one is good which one is bad which one looks like you

Question 8

Civil rights act 1964

Answer 8

Ended segregation in public places and was one of the biggest victories for the movement